(2) how many homes for social rent have been built in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each of the last five years.
(3) how many properties he expects to be added to the stock of social rented housing through (a) construction and (b) purchase in (i) Essex and (ii) Castle Point in (A) 2009-10 and (B) each of the next four years.
The following table shows the number of new affordable homes built in Essex and Castle Point in each of the last five years.
Castle Point Essex 2003-04 0 350 2004-05 30 500 2005-06 0 840 2006-07 0 660 2007-08 20 1,260
The following table shows the number of new social rented homes built in Essex and Castle Point in each of the last five years.
Castle Point Essex 2003-04 0 330 2004-05 30 450 2005-06 0 650 2006-07 0 490 2007-08 10 840 Note: Figures have been rounded to nearest 10 units. Source: Homes and Communities Agency Investment Management System (IMS), and local authority returns to CLG.
Not all social rented and affordable housing is provided by new build completions, as some supply can come from acquisitions. For example, in 2007-08, a total of 1,440 additional affordable homes were provided in Essex (new build and acquisitions).
Communities and Local Government do not set targets for the National Affordable Housing Programme (NAHP) at a local level. The Homes and Communities Agency's National Affordable Housing Programme (NAHP) awards grant funding for the provision of social housing on the basis of competitive bidding.
We have not set individual budgets for each HomeBuy scheme to ensure flexibility within the Homes and Communities Agency’s National Affordable Housing programme 2008-11.
To the end of June £953,055 had been spent on My Choice HomeBuy in the West Midlands.
An Official Journal of the European Union compliant competition to select suitable schemes and providers for HomeBuy Direct commenced on 1 October and closed on 7 November 2008.
FTBI schemes were procured by the former English Partnerships in 2006-07.
For the National Affordable Housing Programme (NAHP), bidding for the 2006-08 programme took place between July and October 2005. The initial bid round for the 2008-11 programme ran from September to early November 2007. This was followed by two Regular Market Engagements (RME). The first RME bid round ran from mid-April to mid-May 2008 and the second ran in July 2008. From September 2008 we moved to Continuous Market Engagement under which there are no longer pre-defined bid rounds and bidding is always open.
New Build HomeBuy and Rent to HomeBuy are part of the NAHP.
Up to the end of June £26,954,819 had been spent on Rent to HomeBuy in 2009-10.
The Government remain committed to helping households who could not otherwise afford to buy into homeownership and the HomeBuy Direct, New Build HomeBuy and Rent to HomeBuy schemes remain available to help those who cannot afford to purchase without Government assistance.
I refer my hon. Friend to my written statement to the House on 30 June 2009, Official Report, columns 8-10WS.
I refer the hon. Member to my written statement to the House on 30 June 2009, Official Report, columns 8-9WS. Since 1997, we have helped over 35,000 households through the Open Market HomeBuy scheme. However, we want to maximise our efforts behind building of new affordable homes, so we are closing the open market homebuy scheme to new applicants and in future our low cost home ownership programme will be directed to schemes which support new build homes.
The following table shows the take-up of, and number of purchases made through Open Market HomeBuy by scheme and region for 2007-08, 2008-09 and the first quarter of 2009-10.
2007-08 2008-091 2009-101 eOMHB Mychoice homebuy Ownhome eOMHB2 Mychoice homebuy Ownhome Eastern 455 151 40 52 30 1 East Midlands 60 625 81 292 182 0 London 624 1,072 158 191 268 0 North East 9 15 10 3 1 0 North West 181 101 56 87 23 0 South East 904 1,176 198 412 255 12 South West 286 393 137 158 48 2 West Midlands 133 228 68 124 26 5 Yorks and Humber 97 165 51 79 8 0 Total 2,749 3,926 799 1,398 841 20
The following table shows Government investment on open market homebuy by scheme and region for 2007-08, 2008-09 and the first quarter of 2009-10.
2007-08 2008-091 2009-101 eOMHB Mychoice homebuy Ownhome eOMHB2 Mychoice homebuy Ownhome Eastern 12,646,571 3,700,539 886,598 1,355,608 981,494 21,345 East Midlands 1,302,182 20,410,497 2,208,860 9,434,277 6,955,301 0 London 21,709,182 55,687,444 5,603,082 7,840,091 13,540,200 0 North East 202,916 374,546 185,200 69,138 32,335 0 North West 3,807,132 2,424,249 1,226,558 2,039,110 763,443 0 South East 27,484,354 37,648,932 5,755,648 13,998,812 10,679,519 332,391 South West 7,047,391 10,864,285 3,683,044 4,719,230 1,785,254 85,656 West Midlands 2,575,689 5,729,820 1,489,892 2,706,973 953,055 77,010 Yorks and Humber 2,281,400 3,951,227 1,140,239 2,111,025 234,567 0 Total 79,056,817 140,791,539 22,179,121 44,274,264 35,925,168 484,662 1 2008-09 and 2009-10 figures are provisional. 2 eOMHB: Transitional arrangement for those households who had already been approved in 2007-08. Source: Homes and Communities Agency.
The total number of people contacted is not held centrally.
Funding for the MyChoice HomeBuy scheme is confirmed only at the point when the equity loan provider has approved an applicant's purchase in writing. Applicants are always advised not to incur any costs until they have received written confirmation from the equity loan provider stating that their chosen property is eligible, that funding has been reserved for them and confirming that the applicant can proceed with their purchase.
Applicants who have not received confirmation have been contacted by MyChoice HomeBuy providers informing them that funding has been fully committed and that the scheme is now closed.
We do not make future estimates of the number of intermediate affordable homes and social rented homes started and completed by local authority area.