Social Rented Housing
(asked on 10th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much capital has been spent on social housing in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.
The Department for Communities and Local Government does not publish data on capital spent on social housing at constituency or regional level or for the UK. The Government’s capital expenditures on social housing in South Tyneside are shown in the table below:
Financial Year South Tyneside
1997/98 £1,085,783
1998/99 £1,108,591
1999/00 £1,775,757
2000/01 £756,541
2001/02 £1,249,969
2002/03 £2,847,198
2003/04 £4,375,483
2004/05 £1,515,392
2005/06 £3,922,079
2006/07 £2,652,339
2007/08 £1,587,888
2008/09 £1,554,884
2009/10 £6,035,307
2010/11 £3,774,591
2011/12 £3,009,924
2012/13 £2,003,199
2013/14 £8,761,008
2014/15 £1,405,668
2015/16 £462,425
**The expenditure figures for 2015-16 reflect the start of the new Affordable Homes Programme 2015-18 followed by the switch to the new 2016-21 Programme. The fall
in expenditure is expected as part of the affordable homes programme cycle. Expenditure and delivery are always lower in the initial years of a new housing
programme.
On average, since 2010, this Government has invested £3,236,136 per year on social housing in South Tyneside, compared to average investment of £2,343,632
between 1997/98 and 2009/10. Data on local Government’s capital expenditure on social housing are not available before 2013-14. The data for 2013-14 onwards are available in the Housing Revenue Account Capital Expenditure, financing and major repairs reserve which
can be found at:
Government is investing £9.4 billion to deliver over 400,000 affordable housing starts by March 2021 - the largest housing programme by any Government since the 1970s.