Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
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.
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: