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Written question asked by Alan Simpson (Labour) on Thursday, 14 July 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 18 July 2005. It was answered by Yvette Cooper (Labour) on Monday, 12 September 2005 on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Social Housing

Question
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much spending has been allocated to improving heating and insulation standards in social housing in each year since 2000, by (a) local authorities and (b) registered social landlords; and if he will express this spending as a percentage of all social landlord expenditure on remedial work to the housing stock.
Answer

Data are only available for local authorities and are set out in the following table. The figures show what local authorities have spent/plan to spend on improving heating and insulation.Over the period shown in the table, this represents 16 per cent. of all expenditure on remedial works.

Total LA expenditure on central heating and insulation
Financial year £000
1999–2000 246,725
2000–01 283,033
2001–02 318,559
2002–03 333,034
2003–04 385,548
2004–05 405,352

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
13547; 436 c2438-9W;436 c2464W
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Heating Social rented housing