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Affordable Housing

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 2 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the (a) name, (b) location and (c) score was of each of the 136 housing projects giving funding under round one of the Kickstart Building for Life. (318728)

The names and locations of successful round one Kickstart schemes are available on HCA’s website:

http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/public/documents/kickstart-schemes-approve%20261109%20projects%20by%20region.pdf

HCA and CABE will produce detailed reports on all aspects of the delivery of Kickstart rounds one and two, including design, following the conclusion of the round two assessment process. These reports will include details of the design assessments undertaken on each scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes have been sold to first-time buyers under the First Time Buyers Initiative since its inception. (319273)

Provisional estimates are that there were 2,350 homes sold to first-time buyers under the First Time Buyers Initiative since its inception to September 2009.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many sales there have been under the Rent to Homebuy scheme since its inception. (319275)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps) on 22 February 2010, Official Report, column 265W.