Housing

HC Deb 22 April 2002 vol 384 cc45-6W

Ms Oona King

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to the answer of 26 March 2002,Official Report, column 977W, on housing, which local authorities were running a cash incentive scheme in (a) 1997–98, (b) 1998–99,(c)1999– 2000 and (d) 2000– 01. [48709]

Ms Keeble

Details of the local authorities in England reporting expenditure on cash incentive scheme grants in these years have been placed in the Libraries of the House.

Tom Brake

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what recent assessment the Government have made of the number of new dwellings needed in London and the South-east to satisfy the need for affordable housing over the next 10 years. [50049]

Ms Keeble

The Government do not make national estimates of housing need, nor the dwellings required, as such approaches are unable to reflect local needs. Instead, local authorities, in conjunction with regional planning bodies, are expected to produce estimates of need and the dwellings required.

Ms Oona King

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to the answer of 26 March 2002,Official Report, column 977W, what figures his Department has collated on the sum each local authority in London running a cash incentive scheme in 2000–01 originally identified as being available to potential applicants. [48716]

Ms Keeble

The information provided by London authorities on their planned spend on Cash Incentive Schemes grants in 2000–01 is shown in the table.

Planned programmes for cash incentive scheme in London, 2000–01
	£000
Barking and Dagenham	0
Barnet	619
Bexley	0
Brent	0
Bromley	0
Camden	1,992
City of London	0
Croydon	1,410
Ealing	0
Enfield	1,283
Greenwich	0
Hackney	537
Hammersmith and Fulham	0
Haringey	500
Harrow	290
Havering	185
Hillingdon	450
Hounslow	0
Islington	0
Kensington and Chelsea	0
Kingston upon Thames	400
Lambeth	0
Lewisham	300
Merton	150
Newham	0
Redbridge	0
Richmond upon Thames	58
Southwark	0
Sutton	200
Tower Hamlets	500
Waltham Forest	1,222
Wandsworth	750
Westminster	400

Source:

Housing Investment Programme returns submitted by authorities in July 2000