Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much Housing Infrastructure Fund forward funding has been approved by each local authority.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
The Housing Infrastructure Fund is a competitive £5.5 billion fund awarded to areas with the greatest housing need to support infrastructure projects that will unlock up to 650,000 homes. To date, circa £3 billion has been allocated across every English region to local authorities whose bids meet the funding criteria.
Information on Housing Infrastructure Fund spend is routinely published and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-infrastructure-fund.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much was spent on affordable housing grant by Homes England in 2018-19.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
Homes England 2019-19 expenditure on affordable housing grants is available in the public domain at:
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been built in national floodzone three in each of the last 10 years, by region.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
The Department does not hold figures for the number of homes built in National Flood Zone 3.
Estimates of the numbers of new homes built in National Flood Zone 3 within each region can be obtained by comparing the percentage of new residential addresses created that were in National Flood Zone 3, with the number of new build completions by region as published in Table 118 at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/850826/Live_Table_118.xls.
A table has been provided giving percentages for each region for all homes built within National Flood Zone 3, from the beginning of the new data series in 2013-14 to the latest year available.
All local planning authorities are expected to follow the strict tests set out in national planning policy and guidance, which includes steering development away from high risk flood areas. Where development in flood risk areas is considered, national planning policy is clear that it should be safe, resilient and not increase flood risk anywhere. We have been clear that new housing is not appropriate and should not be allowed in a functional floodplain, where water has to flow or be stored in times of flood.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much (a) development and (b) infrastructure finance has been allocated from the Home Building Fund, by each local authority.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
The Home Building Fund supports developers to either directly build new homes or to deliver the infrastructure required to enable construction of housing to start on a site. It is a market-facing fund that is available for projects that are viable investments according to our published criteria, and it does not operate on a fixed bidding timetable. Homes England market the fund through continuous market engagement including with trade bodies such as the Home Builders Federation, and any developer is free to apply to the fund through the Homes England portal. There is no predetermined geographic allocation of funding and the consideration of individual transactions is based on investment criteria around viability.
Table 1 shows the investment committed directly to individual sites in each local authority area.
In addition to investment being made in individual sites or projects, a number of large-scale investment funds and national lending alliances have also been supported through the Home Building Fund. This investment is not allocated at local authority level, so a further £354 million development finance and £90 million infrastructure investment has been invested through these national vehicles.
This data is based on projects that have been supported by investment made through the Home Building Fund since its launch in October 2016.
Table 1. Home Building Fund Investment by Local Authority
Local Authority | Development Investment | Infrastructure Investment |
Allerdale | 4,225,324 |
|
Amber Valley | 4,919,747 | 4,401,420 |
Ashfield | 349,118 |
|
Ashford | 2,350,000 | 49,585,923 |
Barnsley | 2,054,248 |
|
Barrow-in-Furness | 1,900,000 |
|
Basildon | - |
|
Bassetlaw | 1,489,000 | 3,943,113 |
Bedford | 9,265,137 |
|
Birmingham | 7,451,053 |
|
Blackburn with Darwen | 9,279,790 |
|
Bolsover | 5,874,325 |
|
Boston | 3,229,275 |
|
Bracknell Forest | 865,000 | 19,999,531 |
Bradford | 9,914,991 |
|
Braintree | 400,000 |
|
Bristol | 24,314,371 |
|
Bromsgrove | - |
|
Broxbourne | 3,556,299 |
|
Broxtowe | 3,268,136 |
|
Burnley | - |
|
Cannock Chase | 1,031,747 |
|
Cheltenham | - |
|
Cheshire East | 20,657,652 |
|
Cheshire West and Chester | 13,609,937 |
|
Chesterfield | 4,693,612 |
|
Chorley | 610,097 |
|
Colchester | 1,285,855 |
|
Copeland | - |
|
Corby | - | 36,758,320 |
Cornwall | 10,743,668 |
|
County Durham | 12,368,152 |
|
Coventry | 8,838,081 |
|
Craven | 5,860,393 |
|
Darlington | 452,919 |
|
Daventry | 851,291 |
|
Derby | - |
|
Doncaster | 4,683,711 | - |
Dudley | 454,726 |
|
East Dorset | - |
|
East Hampshire | 5,701,257 | 26,882,064 |
East Lindsey | 2,262,725 |
|
East Riding of Yorkshire | 8,652,106 | 8,331,000 |
Exeter | 148,905 |
|
Fylde | 3,724,662 |
|
Gravesham | 778,887 |
|
Guildford | 2,117,553 |
|
Halton | 748,483 |
|
Hambleton | 11,899,834 |
|
Harborough | 1,126,150 |
|
Harrogate | 9,188,979 |
|
Hartlepool | 5,377,417 |
|
Herefordshire | 311,970 |
|
High Peak | 1,486,137 |
|
Hounslow | 5,830,189 |
|
Huntingdonshire | 16,057,996 | 20,629,062 |
Hyndburn | 381,435 |
|
Ipswich | 16,433,396 |
|
Isle of Wight | 4,457,039 |
|
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk | - |
|
Kingston Upon Hull | 889,976 |
|
Kirklees | 9,197,126 |
|
Knowsley | - |
|
Lambeth | 4,827,758 |
|
Lancaster | 6,745,455 |
|
Leeds | 8,137,747 | 8,151,897 |
Leicester | 3,152,066 |
|
Liverpool | - |
|
London wide | 30,000,076 |
|
Malvern Hills | 1,420,000 |
|
Manchester | - |
|
Mansfield | 503,774 | 11,990,195 |
Medway Towns | 7,638,070 |
|
Merton | 21,210,179 |
|
Mid Devon | 719,700 |
|
Mid Suffolk | - |
|
Newark and Sherwood | 542,149 |
|
Newcastle upon Tyne | 7,039,878 |
|
Newcastle-under-Lyme | 877,300 |
|
Newham | 42,569,252 | - |
North Devon | 7,340,225 | - |
North Dorset | 3,113,766 |
|
North East Derbyshire | 5,049,798 |
|
North East Lincolnshire | 2,201,975 |
|
North Lincolnshire | 930,298 | 17,084,996 |
North Norfolk | 879,798 |
|
North Tyneside | 805,347 |
|
North Warwickshire | 1,471,000 |
|
North West Leicestershire | 1,928,928 |
|
Northampton | 775,136 |
|
Northumberland | 10,747,043 |
|
Norwich | 4,496,657 |
|
Nottingham | 908,579 |
|
Oxford | - |
|
Pendle | 1,506,314 |
|
Peterborough | - |
|
Plymouth | 10,034,619 |
|
Preston | 6,925,519 |
|
Redbridge | 12,578,201 |
|
Redcar and Cleveland | 1,327,636 |
|
Ribble Valley | 3,651,603 |
|
Richmondshire | 2,433,369 |
|
Rossendale | 3,027,150 |
|
Rotherham | 3,865,491 |
|
Rushcliffe | - | - |
Rutland | 2,000,000 |
|
Ryedale | 48,214 |
|
Salford | 58,501,305 | 3,207,462 |
Sandwell | 7,843,328 |
|
Scarborough | 3,886,435 | 3,000,396 |
Sedgemoor | 1,180,142 |
|
Sefton | 509,665 |
|
Sheffield | 8,354,481 |
|
Shropshire | 9,017,797 |
|
South Derbyshire | 1,861,294 | - |
South Gloucestershire | - |
|
South Hams | 6,429,278 |
|
South Holland | 2,751,122 |
|
South Kesteven | 650,551 |
|
South Norfolk | 426,719 |
|
South Oxfordshire | 609,765 |
|
South Somerset | 977,032 |
|
Southampton | 5,163,290 | 6,703,161 |
St. Helens | 5,711,227 |
|
Staffordshire Moorlands | 2,559,640 |
|
Stockton-on-Tees | 9,105,148 |
|
Stoke-on-Trent | 3,943,242 |
|
Stratford-on-Avon | 2,938,961 |
|
Stroud | 1,098,678 |
|
Sunderland | 15,856,615 |
|
Sutton | - |
|
Swale | - |
|
Tameside | - |
|
Teignbridge | - |
|
Telford and Wrekin | 2,270,615 |
|
Torbay | - |
|
Torridge | 876,334 |
|
Vale of White Horse | 10,154,011 |
|
Wakefield | 2,968,661 |
|
Warrington | 1,682,307 |
|
Watford | - |
|
Wellingborough | 1,443,000 | 68,435,581 |
West Berkshire | 1,623,811 |
|
West Devon | 1,400,756 |
|
West Dorset | - |
|
West Lancashire | 917,949 |
|
Weymouth and Portland | - |
|
Wigan | 6,542,029 |
|
Wiltshire | 1,848,686 |
|
Winchester | 2,579,916 |
|
Wirral | 1,403,375 |
|
Wolverhampton | 2,797,203 |
|
Wyre | 1,433,525 |
|
York | 500,207 |
|
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding in affordable housing grant has been paid to providers under Strategic Housing Partnerships in each quarter for which figures are available.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
The Government does not publish how much grant funding for affordable housing is paid out through Strategic Partnerships on a quarterly basis.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much of the Community Housing fund has been allocated.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
The Community Housing Fund was launched in 2016. Over the four years that the Fund has been in existence, a total of £118,385,132 has been allocated to date by Homes England, or directly by MHCLG and its predecessor, the Department for Communities and Local Government. Allocations made by Homes England may differ from actual expenditure.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral contribution of 27 February 2020, Official report, column 509, if he will provide details of the annual amount of grant funding allocated to affordable housing in each of the last 10 financial years.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
The Government is committed to increasing the supply of social housing and has made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver approximately 250,000 new affordable homes in a wide range of tenures.
The table below provides details on affordable homes programme funding since 2010. This data may also be found in the public domain at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-oscar-publishing-from-the-database
Financial Year | Affordable Homes Programme Expenditure |
2010/11 | £2,660,493,213 |
2011/12 | £1,431,994,000 |
2012/13 | £1,136,633,000 |
2013/14 | £1,219,494,000 |
2014/15 | £1,342,398,000 |
2015/16 | £1,256,863,000 |
2016/17 | £747,333,.000 |
2017/18 | £1,308,730,000 |
2018/19 | £1,670,312,000 |
The way in which our delivery partners Homes England and the Greater London Authority allocate this funding across the country is publicly available. To view the further allocations across England regions and local authorities please see the following:
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated through the Community Housing Fund in each year for which figures are available, by local authority area.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
In the attached, Table 1 shows the sums directly allocated from the Community Housing Fund by the Department (and its predecessor, the Department for Communities and Local Government) and Homes England over each of the four years that Fund has been in existence.
In 2016/17, grants were awarded by the Department directly to local authorities.
Over 2017/18, no grant was awarded from the Community Housing Fund.
The figures given in respect of grants allocated to the Greater London Authority in 2018/19 and 2019/20 represent allocations made directly by the Department in order to deliver the Community Housing Fund in London.
All remaining allocations in 2018/19 and 2019/20 were made by Homes England. The figures given in respect of allocations made by Homes England are the sums of the total grant allocated to the respective local authorities and the total grant allocated to community-based organisations within those respective local authority areas. These figures may differ from actual expenditure.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated under the Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016 to 2021 to date in each (a) region and (b) local authority area.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
The Government is committed to increasing the supply of social housing and has made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver approximately 250,000 new affordable homes in a wide range of tenures, including Social Rent.
The programme is delivered by our partners Homes England and the Greater London Authority (GLA), with £4.7 billion allocated to Homes England and £4.8 billion to the GLA.
The way in which Homes England and the GLA allocate this funding across the country is publicly available. To view the further allocations across England regions and local authorities please see the following:
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much of the housing infrastructure fund has been spent in each (a) region and (b) local authority.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
The Housing Infrastructure Fund is a competitive £5.5 billion fun awarded to areas with the greatest housing need, to support infrastructure projects that will unlock up to 650,000 homes. To date, circa £3 billion has been allocated across every English region to local authorities whose bids meet the funding criteria.
Information on Housing Infrastructure fund spend is routinely published and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-infrastructure-fund.