To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many units of (a) social rented housing and (b) shared ownership and intermediate housing were (i) projected and (ii) started in each English region in each of the last three years. (115785)

The following table shows the number of starts of sites through the Housing Corporation's affordable housing programme and starter home initiative for social rented housing and low cost home ownership including intermediate housing by region for 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 and estimated numbers for 2006-7 and 2007-8. Starts on site are projected for each region and reviewed several times in the year.

The timing of developments means that numbers can fluctuate from one year to the next. Plans have been set out in the Housing Green Paper for a substantial increase in affordable housing over the next three years in every region.