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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Answer

Mr. Edward Davey: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what his estimate is of the total number of (a) social housing units for rent and (b) low cost home ownership units that will be built or acquired (i) with Housing Corporation social housing grant, (ii) with transitional local authority social housing grant and (iii) without public subsidy in 2004-05. [204926] Keith Hill: The following table sets out the forecast number of units to be provided in 2004-05 for rent and low cost home ownership with funding from the Housing Corporation's Approved Development Programme (ADP), transitional local authority social housing grant (LASHG). It also shows the Department's current estimates of the units which could be provided without public subsidy. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Rent Low cost home ownership ADP 16,952 10,048 LASHG 4,356 608 Without public subsidy 1,200 2,600 Total 22,508 13,256 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Where schemes are joint funded with ADP and transitional LASHG these units are recorded against the ADP line.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

204926; 429 c867W;429 c872W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Housing Grants Low incomes Social rented housing Social housing grant

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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