HC Deb 21 June 1990 vol 174 cc637-9W
Mr. French

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what plans he has to increase the participation rate in the tenants incentive scheme;

(2) if he will list, for each local authority participating in the tenants incentive scheme (a) the amount offered to tenants, (b) how many council houses have been vacated and (c) the total number of tenants applying to take part in the scheme; and if he will make a statement;

(3) how many local authorities are participating in the tenants incentive scheme; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Michael Spicer

[holding answer 20 June 1990]: The table sets out details of 89 local authorities which have been given approval to operate cash incentive schemes in 1990–91, the maximum expenditure to be incurred, and the grants to be made available to households. Details of vacancies created by these schemes and of grant applicants will be supplied to my Department by the local authorities concerned at the end of the year.

Cash incentive schemes can be very valuable in helping existing tenants to move into homes of their own while releasing vacancies for reletting to homeless families. The Department encourages local authorities whose areas would benefit from a cash incentive scheme to bring forward proposals for approval. Once a scheme has been approved, details are published by the local authority and tenants are invited to make applications for grant.

Local authority cash incentive schemes approved 1990–91 83 schemes; maximum expenditure £40.4 million; maximum number of vacancies 2,597
Local authority Maximum expenditure 1990–91 £ Maximum number of households assisted Maximum grant for each household £
London
Barnet 600,000 30 20,000
Brent 1.8 million 150 13,000
Bromley 1.5 million 120 13,000
Camden 200,000 20 20,000
Croydon 500,000 33 22,000
Ealing 2.2 million 140 25,000
Enfield 1 million 55 20,000
Hackney 1 million 50 20,000
Hammersmith and Fulham 540,000 30 18,000
Haringey 1.5 million 100 20,000
Harrow 1 million 50 25,000
Havering 150,000 10 16,000
Hillingdon 2.25 million 150 15,000
Hounslow 150,000 20 15,000
Islington 1 million 50 25,000
Kensington and Chelsea 750,000 70 13,000
Lambeth 400,000 25 20,000
Lewisham 1 million 70 15,000
Merton 2 million 140 15,000
Redbridge 3.92 million 140 28,000
Richmond 300,000 30 10,000
South wark 300,000 34 10,000
Wandsworth 1.95 million 100 22,000
Westminster 2 million 100 20,000
Eastern
Aylesbury Vale 400,000 20 20,000
Harlow 150,000 15 10,000
Huntingdon 150,000 12 13,000
Luton 200,000 15 13,000
Maldon 100,000 8 12,000
Peterborough 100,000 20 5,000
Rochford 100,000 9 11,250
South Bucks 40,000 4 11,000
St. Albans 150,000 6 25,000
Watford 200,000 15 13,500
East Midlands
Charnwood 100,000 10 10,000
East Northants 102,000 17 6,000
South Kesteven 500,000 62 8,000
South East
Adur 100,000 10 10,000
Arun 50,000 5 10,000
Basingstoke and Deane 250,000 10 25,000
Brighton 301,500 15 20,000
Canterbury 300,000 14 22,000
Cherwell 300,000 25 12,500
Dover 220,000 10 22,000
East Hampshire 100,000 10 10,000
Elmbridge 240,000 12 20,000
Fareham 107,475 5 21,495
Gillingham 70,000 5 15,000
Hart 200,000 8 25,000

Local authority Maximum expenditure 1990–91 £ Maximum number of households assisted Maximum grant for each household £
Hastings 200,000 20 10,000
Havant 150,000 10 15,000
Horsham 250,000 14 17,000
Hove 500,000 50 10,000
Lewes 250,000 25 10,000
Maidstone 500,000 20 25,000
Oxford 500,000 33 15,000
Portsmouth 1,000,000 50 20,000
Reading 300,000 15 20,000
Reigate and Banstead 300,000 15 20,000
Rother 400,000 17 23,000
Runnymede 100,000 8 14,000
Rushmoor 100,000 14 8,000
Shepway 200,000 9 21,600
Southampton 200,000 14 15,000
Spelthorne 200,000 8 24,000
Tandridge 252,000 20 12,000
Test Valley 100,000 10 10,000
Tonbridge and Malling 500,000 20 25,000
Tunbridge Wells 250,000 11 24,000
Vale of White Horse 150,000 10 15,000
Wealden 200,000 10 20,000
West Oxfords 100,000 5 20,000
Woking 135,000 10 13,000
Worthing 240,000 16 15,000
South West
Exeter 50,000 5 10,000
Kennet 100,000 10 10,000
Purbeck 75,000 10 10,000
North Cornwall 45,000 6 7,500
Salisbury 100,000 10 10,000
South Somerset 100,000 10 10,000
Teignbridge 7,500 1 7,500
West Midlands
Stafford 300,000 40 10,000
Yorkshire and Humberside
Hambleton 100,000 12 10,000