Housing: Coventry Mr. Jim Cunningham To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many empty properties have been brought back into housing stock by Coventry City Council in each year since 2005. Mr. Ian Austin Information on the number of empty properties that have been brought back into housing stock by Coventry City Council in each year since 2005 is not held centrally. Mr. Jim Cunningham To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) homes and (b) affordable homes have been built in Coventry since 1997. Mr. Ian Austin Information on the number of house building completions and the number of affordable new build homes delivered in Coventry since 1997-98 is provided in the following table: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |House building completions|Additional affordable new build homes delivered1| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |1997-98 |* |110 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |1998-99 |* |160 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |1999-2000 |* |150 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2000-01 |* |60 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2001-02 |* |100 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2002-03 |806 |260 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2003-04 |* |70 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2004-05 |* |120 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2005-06 |519 |120 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2006-07 |871 |190 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2007-08 |1,128 |490 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2008-09 |506 |240 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |‘*’ = Denotes not available.1 Rounded to nearest 10.Sources:1. House building completions = Local authority returns to CLG and National House Building Council2. Affordable new build homes = Homes and Communities Agency Investment Management System (IMS) and local authority returns to CLG| | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Not all affordable housing is delivered through new build completions, supply can also come from the acquisition and refurbishment of private sector homes. In 2008-09 for example a total of 270 additional affordable homes were delivered in Coventry. Mr. Jim Cunningham To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes have been built as a result of the Kickstart initiative in Coventry to date. John Healey Under round one of the Kickstart initiative, allocations of £973,000 were made to schemes in Coventry to provide a total of 111 homes all of which will be built by the end of March 2011. Mr. Jim Cunningham To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many home repossessions there have been in Coventry in each year since 1997. Mr. Ian Austin There are two independent sources of data on actual numbers of mortgage possessions: The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) and the Financial Services Authority (FSA). However both are only available for the United Kingdom as a whole.