Housing: Regeneration

Mr. Pickles

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department provided to each Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder area in 2007-08. (252307)

HMR Pathfinder allocations for 2007-08 are given in the following table:

*Total pathfinder funding 2007-*08
	£ million
HMR Pathfinder
Birmingham Sandwell	29.2
East Lanes	48.9
Hull and East Riding	24.9
Manchester Salford	53.9
Merseyside	50.9
Newcastle Gateshead	41.0
North Staffs	38.5
Oldham Rochdale	37.5
South Yorks	49.8
Tees Valley¹	12.75
West Yorkshire¹	12.75
West Cumbria¹	5.5
¹ The three wider lower demand areas.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many properties were (a) demolished, (b) acquired and (c) refurbished in each housing market renewal pathfinder area in 2007-08. (252498)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) on 4 June 2008, Official Report, column 990W.

Volume 487: debated on Thursday 29 January 2009