§ Hugh BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions how much central Government funding has been allocated to the City of York council for council house modernisation in each year since it became a unitary authority. [46770]
§ Ms KeebleTotal housing allocations made to the City of York council as annual capital guidelines, capital receipts initiative allocations (1997–98 to 1999–2000) and through the major repairs allowance (2001–02 onwards) are as follows:
£000 1996–97 2,527 1997–98 1,859 1998–99 2,597 1999–2000 2,807 2000–01 5,093 2001–02 6,448 2002–03 6,344 Notes:
1. Except for the major repairs allowance, allocations are not made specifically for works to council housing.
2. From 2000–01, the annual capital guideline includes resources for private sector renewal that had previously been allocated separately, reflecting our policy of giving local authorities more opportunity to determine their expenditure priorities locally.
3. With the creation of the all-service single capital pot, first used for the allocations for 2002–03, only 95 per cent. of programme resources were allocated as annual capital guidelines, the remainder being in the single pot discretionary element, allocated on the basis of cross-service performance and the quality of capital strategies and asset management plans. The City of York obtained an allocation of £522k through this mechanism, which it is able to spend according to local priorities.