HC Deb 04 December 1961 vol 650 cc1096-8

Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make further arrangements for the giving of financial assistance for the provision and improvement of housing accommodation in Scotland, it is expedient to authorise:— A. (1) The payment out of money provided by Parliament of annual Exchequer subsidies, or equivalent payments, in respect of every new house provided by—

  1. (a) a local authority, or
  2. (b) a development corporation, or
  3. (c) a housing association in pursuance of arrangements made with a local authority or the Secretary of State, or
  4. (d) the Scottish Special Housing Association in the circumstances specified in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section twenty-three of the Housing and Town Development (Scotland) Act, 1957,
in accordance with proposals approved by the Secretary of State. (2) The payment out of money provided by Parliament of such sums as may be required to enable the Secretary of State—
  1. (a) to make to any housing association, for a period not exceeding sixty years, annual payments in respect of arrangements made between him and the association for the provision of housing accommodation by the conversion or improvement of existing houses or by the conversion of other buildings, being payments equal to three-quarters, or in relation to housing accommodation situated in the Highlands and Islands seven-eighths, of the annual loss determined by the Secretary of State to be likely to be incurred by the association in carrying out the arrangements;
  2. (b) to make to the Scottish Special Housing Association, with the approval of the Treasury, such payments (hereafter in this sub-paragraph referred to as "deficiency payments") as he may determine in respect of any excess in any year of the total net expenditure (as calculated in accordance with rules made by the Secretary of State) incurred by the Association in the provision of housing accommodation over the sum of the payments made to them under section ninety-three of the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950, section twenty-three of the Housing and Town Development (Scotland) Act, 1957, and any provision of the said Act of the present Session (other than a provision for the making of deficiency payments);
  3. (c) to acquire, with the approval of the Treasury, shares in any authorised society within the meaning of the Housing Act, 1914; and
  4. (d) to pay into the Exchequer the sums authorised to be so paid under paragraph (b) of head E hereof.
 B.—(1) The issue out of the Consolidated Fund of such sums as may be required for the purpose of making advances—
  1. (a) to housing associations (being associations registered under the Industrial and 1097 Provident Societies Act, 1893), providing housing accommodation for letting.
  2. (b) to the Scottish Special Housing Association for the purpose of—
    1. (i) enabling or assisting the provision of housing accommodation by that Association.
    2. (ii) meeting expenditure incurred by that Association in the provision of housing accommodation for letting,
    3. (iii) enabling or assisting that Association to purchase the assets of housing societies or trusts,
    so however that the advances referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of this head shall not exceed the aggregate sum of three million pounds, and that the aggregate amount of the advances referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of this head, together with any advances made under subsection (1) of section ninety-four of the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950, shall not exceed one hundred and ten million pounds.
 (2) The borrowing in any manner authorised under the National Loans Act, 1939, and payment into the Exchequer of any money needed for providing or replacing such sums as may be issued as aforesaid, and the repayment into the Exchequer, with interest, of any such sums and their re-issue out of the Consolidated Fund. C. The payment out of money provided by Parliament of sums becoming so payable in consequence of amending existing enactments as follows:—
  1. (a) the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950:
    1. (i) the extension of the definition of a hostel in respect of which contributions are payable by the Secretary of State;
    2. (ii) the extension of the Secretary of State's power to make contributions for hostels so as to include hostels provided by housing associations under arrangements made with the Secretary of State;
    3. (iii) the extension of the Secretary of State's power to make contributions in respect of building experiments;
    4. (iv) the extension of the Secretary of State's power to contribute to the expenses of a central association for housing associations;
  2. (b) the Housing and Town Development (Scotland) Act, 1957: the restriction to houses completed after the commencement of that Act of the prohibition of the making to the Scottish Special Housing Association of payments under section ninety-three of the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950, in respect of houses provided by them.
 D. The payment out of money provided by Parliament of any increase attributable otherwise than as aforesaid to the provisions of the said Act of the present Session in the sums required or authorised under any other Act to be so paid. E. The payment into the Exchequer, on the winding up of any housing society or trust in which the Secretary of State owns (at the commencement of the winding up) all the shares, of—
  1. (a) any sum received by the Secretary of State on the winding up;
  2. (b) a sum equal to the excess, if any, of—
    1. (i) any amount outstanding, as at the commencement of the winding up of the society or trust, of any advances made to the society or trust by any government department, over
    2. (ii) any amount received by the Secretary of State on the winding up;
and the payment into the Exchequer of any sum received otherwise than as aforesaid by the Secretary of State by virtue of the said Act of the present Session.

Resolution agreed to.