To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been spent from the public purse on additional housing stock in each year since 1980. (277452)

Information on public expenditure on housing and community amenities, including on housing development, is available in the Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis 2008 (PESA)

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/pespub_pesa08.htm

published by HM Treasury. Spending by my Department on housing in England is also set out in the Department’s published annual reports. Further analysis to disaggregate the element to support the construction of new housing stock, could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Within Communities and Local Government, the Affordable Housing programme is the primary route for funding the construction of new affordable housing in England; this is now delivered by the Homes and Communities Agency. Figures for allocations made through the Affordable Housing programme specifically for new affordable housing provision, are only readily available from 1999-2000 and are shown in the table: figures further back than that could be provided only at disproportionate cost.