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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Answer

Ms Oona King: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) if he will break down the 569 low cost home ownership units planned for Tower Hamlets in the Housing Corporation's 2004-06 Approved Development Programme by (a) one-bed, (b) two-bed, (c) three-bed and (d) four-bed or more; [196715] (2) if he will break down the 569 low cost home ownership units planned for Tower Hamlets in the Housing Corporation's 2004-06 Approved Development Programme by (a) commercial-shared ownership, (b) do-it-yourself shared ownership, (c) Homebuy and (d) other forms of low cost home ownership. [196716] Keith Hill: The Housing Corporation have so far allocated resources to fund a total of 678 low cost home ownership units in Tower Hamlets over the years 2004-06. Of these 310 are conventional shared ownership, 348 are Key Worker Shared ownership. The remaining 20 are Homebuy Market Purchase. The corporation has not funded do-it-yourself shared ownership schemes through the Approved Development Programme (ADP) since 1999-2000. The following table shows the split of low cost homeownership schemes by one, two, three and four or more bedrooms. The figure for Homebuy Market Purchase cannot be broken down until the individual properties are purchased. Low cost home ownership in Tower Hamlets _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Dwellings One-bed Two-bed Three-bed Four-bed Homebuy Market Purchase 20 n/k n/k n/k n/k Keyworker Shared ownership 348 128 213 7 0 Shared ownership 310 113 195 2 0 Total 678 241 408 9 0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

426 c747-8W;426 c752W; 196715;196716

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Construction Grants Low incomes Owner occupation Tower Hamlets Shared ownership schemes Home ownership incentive schemes Approved development programme

Contains statistics

Yes

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