HC Deb 29 October 2001 vol 373 cc484-7W
Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 19 October 2001,Official Report, column 1367–68W, what the successful bids from (a) local authorities and (b) other bodies under the key worker housing grant scheme involving (i) NHS staff and (ii) social services staff were; and what the amounts were. [11024]

Ms Keeble

The allocation of £230 million Starter Home Initiative funding to 95 schemes was announced on 6 September. This will help around 4,000 nurses and other essential health workers, 2,800 teachers, 900 police, and 300 other key workers including social workers.

The successful bids and the total amount of funding allocated to each bid are shown in the table. The table also indicates which schemes include assistance to health staff and social services staff (see notes to the table).

Area covered by successful bid Successful bidders Total amount of SHI funding allocated £ million
Harrow1 Northcote HA 1.631
Hillingdon NHHO 0.168
Hillingdon1 Airways Housing Group 0.180
Hillingdon1 Northcote HA 2.348
Hounslow1,2 Northcote HA 1.120
Richmond-upon-Thames1 Bush HA 0.965
Hounslow, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea1 London Cyrenians Housing 0.246
Ealing and Hillingdon Taywood Homes Ltd. (scheme will be managed by Genesis Housing Group) 0.958
South London1 Moat HA 8.051
Sutton1 Tower Homes 0.345
Lambeth1 Tower Homes 2.520
South East
Bracknell Forest1,2 NHHO 0.841
Reading1 Western Challenge 0.266
Reading1,2 Northcote HA 5.052
Slough1,2 Northcote HA 2.374
West Berkshire1 Airways Housing Group 0.563
Windsor and Maidenhead1,2 Maidenhead and District HA 1.054
Wokingham1,2 Thames Valley HA 2.288
Aylesbury Vale NHHO 0.444
Chiltern, South Chiltern Hundreds HA 6.988
Buckinghamshire, Wycombe, Aylesbury1
Milton Keynes1 Midsummer HA 0.700
Oxford1,2 Pan Oxford Healthcare Partnership (Northcote HA will manage the scheme) 1.865
Oxford Northcote HA 0.966
Oxfordshire1,2 Beacon HA 1.666
South Oxfordshire1 Soha Housing 1.499
South Oxfordshire1 Sovereign HA 0.545
Vale of the White Horse1 Sovereign HA 0.436
West Oxfordshire1 Sovereign HA 0.574
Basingstoke1 Oakfern Housing 0.693
Basingstoke1 Sovereign HA 0.754
East Hampshire Hampshire Voluntary Housing Society 0.125
Eastleigh1 Swaythling HA 0.587
Fareham1 Merlion Housing Group 0.875
Hampshire Hampshire county council (scheme will be managed by Swaythling HA) 1.103
Havant Swaythling HA 0.381
Rushmoor, Hart1 Thames Valley HA 1.468
Southampton1,2 Southampton city council (Swaythling HA will manage the scheme) 2.060
Test Valley1 Swaythling HA 0.663
Winchester1 Hampshire Voluntary Housing Society 0.131
Winchester1 Swaythling HA 0.589
Ashford1 Moat HA 0.908
Canterbury1 Moat HA 0.648
Dartford1 Moat HA 0.562
Gravesham1 Moat HA 0.367
Maidstone1 Hyde HA 0.333
Maidstone1 Town and Country Housing Group 0.100
Maidstone1 Moat HA 0.677
Sevenoaks1 Moat HA 1.040
Tonbridge and Mailing1 Moat HA 0.876
Tunbridge Wells1 Town and Country Housing Group 0.100
Tunbridge Wells1 Moat HA 0.910
Brighton and Hove1 Moat HA 2.124
Chichester1,2 Raglan HA 0.116
Crawley1 Moat HA 0.950
East Sussex1,2 East Sussex local authorities in conjunction with Moat HA (Moat HA will run the scheme) 1.664
Mid Sussex1 Moat HA 0.750
Horsham1 Moat HA 0.781
Epsom and Ewell1 Mount Green HA 0.142
Guildford1,2 Guildford borough council 0.408
Surrey1,2 Thames Valley HA 13.472
Mole Valley1 Mount Green HA 0.238
Runnymede1 Servite Homes 0.255
Spelthorne1 Airways Housing Group 0.675
East
Bedford1 Bedfordshire Pilgrims HA 0.587
Cambridge, South Cambridgeshire1,2 Cambridgeshire Employers' Consortium in conjunction with Bedfordshire Pilgrims HA (the HA will manage the scheme) 4.826
Hertfordshire2 Aldwyck HA 2.531

Area covered by successful bid Successful bidders Total amount of SHI funding allocated £ million
Hertfordshire Ridgehill HA 1.495
Welwyn and Hatfield, Stevenage1 East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust in conjunction with St. Pancras HA (the HA will manage the scheme) 1.390
Watford1 Beacon HA 1.479
Basildon1 Moat HA 0.405
Braintree1 Moat HA 0.427
Chelmsford1 Boleyn and Forest HA 0.469
Chelmsford Taywood Homes (Taywood will work in partnership with Chelmsford borough council to manage the scheme) 0.402
Harlow1 Moat HA 0.752
Maldon1 Moat HA 0.548
South West
Bournemouth1 Western Challenge HA 0.517
Bristol/South Gloucestershire1 Bristol city council and South Gloucestershire in conjunction with Knightstone and Sovereign HAs 1.721
Cheltenham1 Bromford Housing Group 0.401
Christchurch1 Sovereign HA 0.182
Cotswold1 Cotswold district council 0.506
Swindon1 Swindon borough council (Sarsen HA will manage the scheme) 1.150
1 Schemes include assistance to health staff
2 Schemes include assistance to social services staff