Housing: Standards

(asked on 18th April 2019) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has allocated to the decent homes programme (a) in each of the last ten years and (b) in each of the next five years.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 26th April 2019

The number of social homes failing to meet the Decent Homes standard fell by 32 per cent between 2010 and 2017.

Between 2011 and 2016 we provided a total of £1.76 billion to 45 councils across England to help them tackle their backlog of non-compliant homes. It helped to make over 158,000 homes meet the relevant standards.

Private registered providers – such as housing associations - are expected to maintain their homes to the Decent Homes Standard using their own resources. In the year to March 2018, private registered providers spent £1.7 billion on capital improvements to existing stock.

The Social Housing Green Paper asked whether there are any changes to what constitutes a decent home that we should consider.

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