HC Deb 28 April 2004 vol 420 c1139W
Mr. Betts

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the amounts of outturn prices of(a) management and maintenance allowances, (b) major repairs allowances, (c) guideline rent (assumed HRA rental income), (d) actual Housing Revenue Account (HRA) rental income, (e) subsidy to the HRA including housing benefit subsidy, (f) HRA housing benefit subsidy entitlement and (g) subsidy to HRA net of contributions from HRA to housing benefit costs were for (i) each housing revenue account in England and (ii) England as a whole for (A) 1990–01, (B) 2000–01, (C) 2001–02, (D) 2002–03 and (E) 2003–04. [166639]

Keith Hill

The information has been made available in the Library of the House. Item(a) is management and maintenance allowances; item (b) is major repairs allowances; these did not exist in 1990–91 and 2000–01; item (c) is guideline rental income; item (g) is the "housing element entitlement" of HRA subsidy; where positive, this is the subsidy paid to the authority prior to consideration of rent rebate subsidy; where negative, this is the contribution by the HRA to the cost of rent rebates and also occasionally includes a payment to the General Fund; item (f) is the "rent rebate element entitlement" of HRA subsidy; this is the subsidy paid to the authority towards the cost of rent rebates; item (e) is HRA subsidy entitlement and is the sum of item (g) and item (f).

The above are subsidy items. Item (d) is the actual HRA rental income. This is not available for 1990–91 and is not yet available for 2003–04.