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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills for each local education authority, how many specialist housing units for teachers have been created in the past year. [36623] Mr. Timms: The Department for Education and Skills has not created any specialist housing units for teachers in the past year. However, as part of the £250 million Starter Homes Initiative, more than 3,500 teachers will receive assistance in purchasing homes in areas of high demand or high price. In September 2001 we announced the first round of the Initiative, which aimed to help more than 2,800 teachers. In January of this year we announced that a further 700 teachers would receive help in the second round of the Initiative. Assistance will be in the form of equity loans, interest free loans and shared ownership. The tables set out the numbers of teachers who will receive assistance, by LEA, for each of the two rounds of the Initiative. Round one--Starter Homes Initiative _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Area/LEA Teachers London (covering all London boroughs 1,588 Berkshire 132 Buckinghamshire 85 Oxfordshire 87 Hampshire 200 Kent 142 East Sussex 129 Surrey 157 Cambridgeshire 50 Hertfordshire 68 Bedford 19 Essex 98 Covers Bournemouth, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, 60 Christchurch, Swindon Total 2,815 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Round two--Starter Homes Initiative _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Area/LEA Teachers Dorset 18 Milton Keynes 10 Southampton 10 Warwickshire 25 Wiltshire 21 Bedfordshire 21 Buckinghamshire 25 Cambridgshire 26 East Sussex 22 Essex 66 Hertfordshire 57 Kent 70 Oxfordshire 28 South Gloucestershire/City of Bristol 13 Surrey 46 Swindon 10 Hampshire 59 Medway 30 Portsmouth 17 Thurrock 15 Luton 10 Bath and North East Somerset 10 North Somerset 10 Bracknell Forest 10 Brighton and Hove 10 Isles of Scilly 1 Poole 10 Reading 10 Slough 10 West Berkshire 10 Windsor and Maidenhead 10 Wokingham 10 Total 700 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

36623; 380 c723-4W;380 c725-6W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Housing Local education authorities Teachers Starter home initiative

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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