§ Ms BuckTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will make a statement on his Department's plans for the role of housing regeneration companies in revitalising cities. [139792]
§ Mr. MullinThe Housing Corporation is working with registered social landlords to pilot five housing regeneration companies in Coventry, Liverpool, London, Rochdale and Yorkshire. The aim is to test whether a single organisation can co-ordinate and deliver regeneration in a specific neighbourhood. The pilot housing regeneration companies will work across housing tenures, contributing to physical improvements in the housing stock and to wider initiatives such as training, employment and enabling communities to be more involved in the management of their neighbourhoods. In the light of these initiatives we will consider whether this approach could be adopted more widely to support the implementation of our regeneration policies set out in the Housing Green Paper and the Urban White Paper.