To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many shared equity homes are on the National Register of Social Housing in England. (153711)

The National Register of Social Housing recorded 4,221 dwellings in shared ownership in England in July 2007. This is 1.3 per cent. of the 318,976 dwellings for which the category of provision had been provided by local authorities and housing associations.

In July 2007 the National Register of Social Housing contained records of 1.19 million dwellings out of a total of 4 million. Participation by landlords is at present discretionary. Landlords have only provided the category of provision information for 318,976 dwellings. Without this we are not able to identify those in shared ownership. We are working with local authorities, and, through the Housing Corporation, with housing associations to speed up the capture of data and complete the information on category of provision and other attributes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which Minister approved the establishment of the National Register of Social Housing; and on what date approval was given. (153905)

My right hon. Friend the Member for Streatham, (Keith Hill) then Minister of Housing and Local Government, approved the establishment of the National Register of Social Housing on 13 September 2004.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the (a) Social Homebuy, (b) Open Markets Homebuy and (c) New Build Homebuy schemes apply to social tenants in Wales. (153906)

The Social, Open Market and New Build HomeBuy schemes operate in England to help social tenants, key workers and other priority first time buyers into home ownership.

Housing in Wales is the responsibility of the Welsh Assembly Government.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether her Department has a target for the number of Social HomeBuy sales between 2005 and 2010. (153911)

The Government have not set a specific target for sales under the Social HomeBuy pilot scheme which runs until March 2008. Final numbers will be dependent on participation by local authorities and housing associations offering the scheme and the take up from tenants. The scheme is one of a range of options which aims to help social tenants, key workers and other first time buyers into home ownership.

As announced in the Housing Green Paper: ‘Homes for the future: more affordable’, more sustainable on 23 July, we want to see the opportunity of Social HomeBuy offered more widely by landlords and we will announce further proposals later this year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a copy of the business case for the National Register of Social Housing. (153913)

The latest version of the business case for the National Register of Social Housing has been placed in the Library of the House, as requested.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many private developments have met the 50 per cent. affordable housing target since its inception, broken down by London borough. (154055)

The information requested is not held centrally. The Mayor of London's 50 per cent. affordable housing target is a strategic target for London as a whole, and not a requirement for each individual planning application. Planning applications for housing development in London are primarily the responsibility of the boroughs, who consult the Mayor of London on a limited number of applications that raise issues of strategic importance.