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Housing: Low Incomes

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 5 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which (a) local authorities and (b) arm's length management organisations are in (i) positive and (ii) negative subsidy with reference to the housing revenue account. (188338)

The following table lists those local housing authorities that are in positive housing revenue account (HRA) and negative HRA subsidy. Local authorities that have delegated housing management functions to an arm's length management organisation are marked with a superscript1.

Local housing authorities with positive HRA subsidy entitlement in 2006-07

Ashfield1

Barnsley1

Basildon1

Birmingham

Blackpool1

Blyth Valley1

Bolton1

Brent1

Brighton and Hove

Bristol

Camden

City of London

Derby1

Ealing1

Easington1

Eastbourne1

Gateshead1

Greenwich

Hackney1

Hammersmith1

Haringey1

Hounslow1

Islington1

Kensington1

Kings Lynn

Kingston Upon Hull

Kirklees1

Lambeth1

Leeds1

Leicester

Lewisham1

Lincoln

Liverpool

Manchester1

Newcastle upon Tyne1

Newham1

North Tyneside

Nottingham1

Oldham1

Plymouth

Rochdale1

Salford1

Sandwell1

Sheffield1

South Norfolk

Southwark

Stockton1

Teesdale

Thanet

Tower Hamlets

Waltham Forest1

Westminster1

Wigan1

Local housing authorities with negative HRA subsidy entitlement in 2006-07

Adur

Alnwick

Arun

Ashford

Aylesbury

Babergh

Barking

Barnet1

Barrow

Bassetlaw1

Berwick

Blaby

Bolsover

Bournemouth

Bracknell

Braintree

Brentwood

Bridgnorth

Broxtowe

Bury1

Cambridge

Cannock Chase

Canterbury

Caradon

Carrick1

Castle Morpeth

Castle Point

Charnwood1

Cheltenham1

Chesterfield

Chester-le-Street

Chorley

City of York

Colchester1

Corby

Crawley

Croydon

Dacorum

Darlington

Dartford

Daventry

Derwentside

Doncaster1

Dover

Dudley

Durham

East Devon

East Riding

Ellesmere Port

Enfield

Epping Forest

Exeter

Fareham

Fenland

Gedling

Gloucester1

Gosport

Gravesham

Great Yarmouth

Guildford

Harborough

Harlow

Harrogate

Harrow

Havering1

High Peak1

Hillingdon1

Hinckley

Ipswich

Kettering

Kingston upon Thames

Lancaster

Lewes

Luton

Macclesfield

Mansfield

Medway Towns

Melton

Merton

Mid Devon

Mid Suffolk

Milton Keynes

Mole Valley

NE Derbyshire1

New Forest

Newark1

North Cornwall

North Kesteven

North Lincoln

North Shropshire

North Warwick

Northampton

Nuneaton

NW Leicester

Oadby and Wigston

Oswestry

Oxford City

Pendle

Poole1

Portsmouth

Reading

Redbridge1

Redditch

Ribble Valley

Richmondshire

Rochford

Rotherham1

Rugby

Runnymede

Rutland

Salisbury

Sedgefield

Sedgemoor1

Sefton

Selby

Shepway

Slough

Solihull1

South Beds

South Cambridge

South Derby

South Gloucs

South Holland

South Kesteven

South Lakeland1

South Northants

South Tyneside1

Southampton

Southend-on-Sea1

St. Albans

Stevenage1

Stockport1

Stoke-on-Trent

Stroud

Sutton1

Swindon

Tamworth

Tandridge

Taunton Deane

Tendring

Three Rivers

Thurrock

Uttlesford

Wandsworth

Warrington1

Warwick

Waveney

Waverley

Wealden

Wear Valley1

Wellingborough

West Lancashire

Winchester

Woking

Wokingham

Wolverhampton1

Wycombe

2006-07 is the latest financial year for which audited data are available. Although local housing authorities in surplus and so making HRA subsidy payments to the Department outnumber local housing authorities receiving positive HRA subsidy, the Exchequer made a net contribution of £148 million to HRA subsidy nationally.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2008, Official Report, column 583W, and 1 February 2008, Official Report, column 690-91W, on housing: low incomes, what the early repayment charges are on (a) Part 1 and (b) Part 2 of the loans offered by Yorkshire Building Society if the mortgage is redeemed or the property is sold within the first five years of the mortgage. (189241)

The question does not relate to our low cost home ownership policy. It is in relation to loans offered by a mortgage lender.

The Yorkshire Building Society should be contacted for details of early repayment charges on parts 1 and 2.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when the Housing Corporation plans to produce an assessment methodology for determining the impact of affordable housing investment decisions on community cohesion; and if she will make a statement. (190154)

As set out in the response to the Commission on Integration and Cohesion, published on 4 February, the Housing Corporation within their Affordable Housing Programme requires all Investment Partners to provide a ‘Method Statement’ that details how they intend to meet the needs of diverse communities.

The Corporation will be doing further work later this year on an assessment methodology for determining the impact of affordable housing investment decisions on community cohesion.