Local Authority Housing (Hansard, 5 March 2003)

§ Mr. Hopkins
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the current debt is in each English authority's housing revenue account; and if he will estimate the cost of debt redemption charges if the debt was cancelled. [100330]

§ Mr. McNulty
Local authorities manage their debt corporately so there are no separate data for debt in respect of housing. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister does however make estimates of national housing debt for the purposes of housing revenue account subsidy calculations. This is listed for each authority as the Mid-Year Subsidy Credit Ceiling for 2003–04 in Schedule 6 Column I of The Housing Revenue Account Subsidy Determination 2003–04. This Schedule can be seen at http://www. housing.odpm.gov.uk/03hrad/fmal/index.htm.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister does not have detailed knowledge of the debt of each authority and so we cannot estimate the cost of debt redemption charges if debt were cancelled.

Total housing capital receipts

£000

1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02

Bridgnorth 1,603 1,780 2,205 1,348 1,591

North Shropshire 1,337 1,191 1,827 1,739 1,760

Oswestry 535 747 1,643 1,429 1,080

Shrewsbury and Atcham 2,457 2,837 3,364 3,101 62,846

South Shropshire 310 224 437 197 280

Telford and Wrekin 3,795 96,913 213 1,996 2,688

Usable capital receipts applied to housing capital programme

£000

1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02

Bridgnorth 548 627 401 0 359

North Shropshire 345 313 360 278 368

Oswestry 98 115 68 0 0

Shrewsbury and Atcham 802 434 360 1,057 499

South Shropshire 895 859 853 819 677

Telford and Wrekin 290 3,105 439 2,112 2,071

Note:
Large scale voluntary transfers of council stock undertaken by Telford and Wrekin in March 1999, and by Shrewsbury and Atcham in October 2001.
Source:
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister annual Housing Investment Programme and COR returns

§ Mr. Hopkins
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the authorities who have not(a) transferred their housing stock and (b) set up an Arms-length Management Organisation. [100333]

§ Mr. McNulty
The local housing authorities in England that had not transferred all of their housing stock or been successful in achieving full Arms-length Management Organisation status at the end of February are listed below.
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§ Lynne Jones
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list those local authorities whose housing revenue accounts are(a) in surplus and (b) in deficit, providing for each (i) the average surplus or deficit per dwelling and (ii) the number of dwellings. [100253]

§ Mr. McNulty
The information has been placed in the Library.

§ Mr. Paul Marsden
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the value of housing capital receipts not recycled into capital housing spend was in each of the last five years in each(a) borough and (b) district council in Shropshire. [99721]

§ Mr. McNulty
Authorities are required to set aside up to 75 per cent. of housing capital receipts to be used only (unless the authority becomes debt-free) for debt redemption or paying off credit arrangements. The accumulated balance of usable receipts may then, at the authority's discretion, be used to support their capital programme. Information reported by local authorities in Shropshire on gross housing capital receipts, and the level of usable capital receipts applied to their housing capital programme, is in the following table.

Adur

Alnwick

Arun

Ashford

Aylesbury Vale

Babergh

Barking and Dagenham

Barnet

Barnsley²

Barrow-in-Furness

1009W

Basildon

Bassetlaw

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Birmingham

Blaby

Blackpool

Blyth Valley²

Bolsover

Bolton²

Bournemouth

Bracknell Forest

Braintree

Brent²

Brentwood

Bridgnorth

Brighton and Hove

Bristol

Bromsgrove¹

Broxbourne

Broxtowe

Bury

Cambridge

Camden

Cannock Chase

Canterbury

Caradon

Carrick²

Castle Morpeth

Castle Point

Charnwood

Cheltenham²

Cherwell¹

Chesterfield

Chester-le-Street

Chorley

City of London

Colchester²

Copeland¹

Corby

Craven¹

Crawley

Croydon

Dacorum

Darlington

Dartford

Daventry

Derwentside

Doncaster

Dover

Dudley

Durham

Ealing

Easington

East Devon

East Riding of Yorkshire

Eastbourne

Ellesmere Port and Neston
1010W
Enfield

Epping Forest

Exeter

Fareham

Fenland

Forest Heath

Forest of Dean¹

Gateshead

Gedling

Gloucester

Gosport

Gravesham

Great Yarmouth

Greenwich

Guildford

Hackney

Halton

Hammersmith and Fulham

Harborough

Haringey

Harlow

Harrogate

Harrow

Hartlepool

Havering

High Peak

Hillingdon²

Hinckley and Bosworth

Hyndburn

Ipswich

Isles of Scilly

Islington

Kensington and Chelsea²

Kettering

Kings Lynn and West Norfolk

Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Thames

Lambeth

Lancaster

Leeds²

Leicester

Lewes

Lewisham

Lincoln

Liverpool

Luton

Macclesfield

Maidstone¹

Manchester

Mansfield

Melton

Merton

Mid Devon

Mid Suffolk

Middlesbrough¹

Milton Keynes

Mole Valley

New Forest

Newark and Sherwood

1011W

Newcastle upon Tyne

Newham

North Cornwall

North East Derbyshire

North East Lincolnshire

North Hertfordshire¹

North Kesteven

North Lincolnshire

North Norfolk

North Shropshire

North Somerset

North Tyneside

North Warwickshire

North West Leicestershire

Northampton

Norwich

Nottingham City

Nuneaton and Bedworth¹

Oadby and Wigston

Oldham²

Oswestry

Oxford

Pendle

Peterborough

Plymouth

Poole

Portsmouth

Preston

Purbeck

Reading

Redbridge

Redditch

Ribble Valley

Richmondshire

Rochford

Rossendale

Rotherham

Rugby

Runnymede

Rutland

Salford²

Salisbury

Sandwell

Scarborough¹

Sedgefield

Sedgemoor

Sefton

Selby

Sheffield

Shepway

Slough

Solihull

South Bedfordshire

South Cambridgeshire

South Derbyshire

South Gloucestershire
1012W
South Holland

South Kesteven

South Lakeland

South Norfolk¹

South Northamptonshire

Southampton

Southend-on-Sea

Southwark

St. Albans

Stafford

Stevenage

Stockport¹

Stoke-on-Trent

Stroud

Sutton

Swindon

Tamworth

Tandridge

Taunton Deane

Teesdale

Teignbridge¹

Tendring

Thanet

The Medway Towns

Three Rivers

Thurrock

Torridge

Tower Hamlets

Trafford

Uttlesford

Wakefield

Walsall¹

Waltham Forest²

Wandsworth

Wansbeck

Warrington

Warwick

Watford

Waveney

Waverley

Wealden

Wear Valley

Wellingborough

Welwyn Hatfield

West Lancashire

Winchester

Wirral

Woking

Wokingham

Wolverhampton

Worcester¹

Wycombe

York

¹ On current transfer programme

² On Round 2 Arms-length Management Organisation programme

1013W

§ Jeremy Corbyn
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the housing improvement resources provided to the London borough of Islington for each of the last five years and the projected expenditure for the financial year 2003–2004. [100272]

§ Mr. McNulty
The housing resources, as allocated through the Housing Investment Programme, for London borough of Islington for the past five years are as follows:

£ million

1998–99 18.86

1999–2000 18.15

2000–01 28.56

2001–02 38.3

2002–03 40.24

The allocation for financial year 2003–04 is £39.44 million.

§ Mr. Tony Clarke
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many new residential dwellings were built in the borough of Northampton in(a) 2001–02, (b) 2002–03; and how many will be built in 2003–04. [100807]

§ Mr. McNulty
In 2001–02 935 new residential dwellings were built in the borough with 74 per cent. built on brownfield land. Based on an average over the last six years, Northampton borough council expects that there will be an average of 849 new completions per annum in 2002–03 and 2003–04.

§ Mr. Hopkins
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the English authorities who have yet to submit an option appraisal for housing to his Department. [100332]

§ Mr. McNulty
My right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister recently announced, in "Sustainable communities: building for the future", that all authorities with housing stock would, in future, need to produce objective and rigorous option appraisals, which are to be signed-off by Government regional offices, by July 2005. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister will be issuing guidance to authorities about the arrangements for submitting and signing off option appraisals shortly.

Total housing capital receipts
£000
	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02
Bridgnorth	1,603	1,780	2,205	1,348	1,591
North Shropshire	1,337	1,191	1,827	1,739	1,760
Oswestry	535	747	1,643	1,429	1,080
Shrewsbury and Atcham	2,457	2,837	3,364	3,101	62,846
South Shropshire	310	224	437	197	280
Telford and Wrekin	3,795	96,913	213	1,996	2,688

Usable capital receipts applied to housing capital programme
£000
	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02
Bridgnorth	548	627	401	0	359
North Shropshire	345	313	360	278	368
Oswestry	98	115	68	0	0
Shrewsbury and Atcham	802	434	360	1,057	499
South Shropshire	895	859	853	819	677
Telford and Wrekin	290	3,105	439	2,112	2,071

£ million
1998–99	18.86
1999–2000	18.15
2000–01	28.56
2001–02	38.3
2002–03	40.24