Affordable Housing

Grant Shapps
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many affordable homes were constructed in 2008-09.

Mr. Ian Austin
Information on additional new build affordable homes can be found in Table 1009 on the CLG website:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/xls/1406088.xls

Not all affordable housing is provided by new build completions, some can be provided through acquisitions.

Grant Shapps
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 9 February 2010, Official Report, columns 866-8W, on affordable housing, what expenditure his Department has incurred on (a) HomeBuy Direct, (b) New Build HomeBuy, (c) Open Market HomeBuy, (d) First Time Buyer's Initiative, (e) Social HomeBuy and (f) Rent to HomeBuy in 2009-10.

John Healey
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 9 February 2010, Official Report, columns 867-68W.

Jim Cousins
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes have been bought under the Rent to Homebuy scheme in each (a) local authority and (b) region since the inception of that scheme; and what the monetary value of such sales was in each area on the latest date for which figures are available.

John Healey
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps) on 22 February 2010 to PQ 316761.