Tenants' Incentive Scheme

HC Deb 18 July 1990 vol 176 cc569-71W

Mr. French

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many local authorities are participating in the tenants' incentive scheme; and if he will make a statement;

(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) what plans he has to increase the participation rate in the tenants' incentive scheme.

Mr. Michael Spicer

[pursuant to his reply, 21 June 1990, c. 639]: 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 applications 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 89 schemes; maximum expenditure £41.6 million; maximum number of vacancies 2,700
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	15,000
Southwark	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	12,500
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

Local authority	Maximum expenditure 1990–91 £	Maximum number of households assisted	Maximum grant for each household £
Arun	50,000	5	10,000
Basingstoke and Deane	250,000	10	25,000
Brighton	301,500	15	20,000
Canterbury	300,000	15	22,500
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
Gravesham	100,000	10	10,000
Hart	200,000	8	25,000
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
New Forest	250,000	15	17,000
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
Slough	500,000	38	13,000
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
Ton bridge 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 Oxfordshire	100,000	5	20,000
Woking	135,000	10	13,500
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
Mendip	120,000	12	10,000
North Cornwall	45,000	6	7,500
Poole	50,000	7	7,500
Salisbury	100,000	10	10,000
South Somerset	100,000	10	10,000
Taunton Deane	200,000	20	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