§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the total costs of grants to Arm's Length Management Organisations, and the amount paid to each, has been since 1999. [176757]
§ Keith HillThe Housing Revenue Account Subsidy paid to local authorities which have set up qualifying Arms Length Management Organisations (ALMOs) to manage and improve their housing stock includes an allowance to support borrowing by the local authorities for capital expenditure by their ALMOs. This allowance was first paid in 2002–03. The sums paid to each qualifying local authority in 2002–03 and 2003–04 are tabled as follows:
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ALMO allowance (£) Local authority 2002–03 2003–04 Round 1 ALMOs Ashfield 1,012,603 2,400,000 Derby 1,312,164 3,110,000 Hounslow 1,179,452 3,500.000 Kirklees 1,917,808 6,250,000 Rochdale 835,397 2,420,000 Stockton-on-Tees 1,353,288 4,450,000 Westminster 745,260 2,030,000 Wigan 1,788,932 5,830,000 Round 2 ALMOs Barnsley — 1,856,885 Blyth Valley — 1,329,235 Bolton — 2,619,654 Brent — 2,342,213 Carrick — 109,098 Cheltenham — 422,131 Hillingdon — 86,175 Kensington and Chelsea — 1,580,334 Leeds—North East — 447,072
ALMO allowance (£) Local authority 2002–03 2003–04 Leeds—West — 778,210 Oldham — 3,033,211 Total 10,114,904 44,594,218
§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will place in the Library the evidence he has collated on the benefits that arise from(a) separating housing management from housing strategy and (b) the financial effect of the separation. [177007]
§ Keith HillThe Audit Commission's Best Value Inspection Reports indicate that stock owning local authorities primarily see their housing role as that of a landlord. This reduces their focus on strategic housing functions. In explaining why they had published best practice on how local authorities that had transferred their stock deliver their strategic housing using role, the Audit Commission said that
Having set up a housing association to run its rented homes, a council is able to concentrate on area-based regeneration, including private sector housing. In other areas, councils have used stock transfer as an opportunity o work more effectively with planning services to provide more affordable housing and more mixed-tenure developments".The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister does not have information of the financial effects of the separation of strategic and landlord services.
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LSVT Authority Date of transfer Private investment (£ million) Manchester CC (Colshaw Farm) 14 February 2000 30.00 North Devon DC 21 February 2000 70.00 LB Hackney*Stamford Hill 6 March 2000 35.00 LB Hackney*Pembury Estate 6 March 2000 33.90 Burnley BC 8 March 2000 45.00 Manchester CC Sale Estate 20 March 2000 23.00 Weymouth and Portland C 20 March 2000 55.00 Huntingdon DC 20 March 2000 95.00 Elmbridge BC 27 March 2000 93.00 Test Valley BC 27 March 2000 111.00 Wyre Forest DC 27 March 2000 80.00 Manchester CC Whitefield Estate 27 March 2000 20.00 LB Tower Hamlets*THCH 27 March 2000 45.00 Tameside 27 March 2000 213.00 MBC LB Richmond 17 July 2000 173.00 Coventry CC 22 September 2000 240.00 Fylde BC 2 October 2000 30.00 Chester CC 27 November 2000 90.00 Horsham DC 11 December 2000 100.00 LB Tower Hamlets*Poplar I 12 February 2001 33.00 East Northamptonshire DC 19 February 2001 60.00 Torbay BC 19 February 2001 50.00 Staffordshire Moorlands DC 23 February 2001 50.00 Calderdale MBC 6 March 2001 112.00 Chichester DC 13 March 2001 120.00 Mendip DC 19 March 2001 70.00 West Wiltshire DC 26 March 2001 100.00 West Oxfordshire DC 26 March 2001 75.00 East Staffordshire BC 26 March 2001 62.00 Manchester CC Handforth Estate 26 March 2001 17.00 Sunderland CC 26 March 2001 425.00 Blackburn with Darwen BC 28 March 2001 85.00 Shrewsbury and Atcham BC 1 October 2001 82.00 Mid–Bedfordshire DC 5 November 2001 50.00
§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much investment to fund stock improvements has been secured via transfer, private finance initiative and Arm's Length Management Organisations since the Housing Green Paper was published in 2000, broken down by local authority; and how much of the backlog of repairs and improvement remains to be funded. [176756]
§ Keith HillThe following tables show the level of additional investment secured by ALMO PFI and LSVT since 2000.
These figures do not include mainstream housing funding paid to stock owning local authorities including those that have established ALMOs or PFI contracts.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is not in a position to update or estimate the reduction since 2001 of the repairs and improvement backlog until we have sufficient data from the English House Condition Survey, the next report of which will be published by the end of this year.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister needs this independent assessment, as we cannot determine the remaining backlog by simply deducting the sums spent from the previous backlog estimate. This is because the expenditure is used both to reduce the backlog and to stop the backlog increasing.
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LSVT Authority Date of transfer Private investment (£ million) Derbyshire Dales 4 March 2002 59.00 Chelmsford BC 11 March 2002 145.00 East Hertfordshire DC 18 March 2002 50.00 DC 57.00 Erewash BC 25 March 2002 99.00 Reigate and Banstead BC 25 March 2002 105.50 St. Edmundsbury 24 Jun(2002 91.00 Vale Royal BC 1 July 2002 90.00 St. Helens MBC 1 July 2002 129.00 Redcar and Cleveland BC 15 July 2002 180.00 Knowsley MBC 15 July 2002 180.00 LB Waltham Forest 30 September 2002 175.00 LB Hackney cc sheltered stock 14 October 2002 25.00 LB Harrow 14 October 2002 55.00 Manchester cc Langley Estate 18 November 2002 28.00 County of Herefordshire C 25 November 2002 63.00 Carlisle CC 9 December 2002 63.50 Rushcliffe BC 20 January 2003 55.00 Liverpool CC Eastern Fringe (south) 23 January 2003 25.50 Liverpool CC Eastern Fringe (central) 30 January 2003 17.50 City of Bradford 24 February 2003 245.10 Amber Valley BC 24 February 2003 94.00 Crewe and Nantwich BC 10 March 2003 54.00 Liverpool CC Eastern fringe (north) 10 March 2003 64.50 Oldham MBC Limeside (Hollins/The Avenues) 17 March 2003 12.00 Walsall MBC (majority of stock) 27 March 2003 213.00 Walsall MBC (tenant managed stock) 27 March 2003 7.20 Craven DC 31 March 2003 15.00 Forest of Dean DC 31 March 2003 50.00 North Hertfordshire DC 31 March 2003 182.00 Manchester CC (East Manchester) 8 September 2003 25.00 Scarborough BC 15 December 2003 43.00 Maidstone BC 2 February 2004 50.00 Teignbridge 4 February 2004 45.00 Oldham MBC Fitton Hill 15 March 2004 8.50 Cherwell 29 March 2004 50.00 Bromsgrove 29 March 2004 49.00 Hartlepool 29 March 2004 65.00 Liverpool (Kensington) 29 March 2(104 19.00 Worcester 31 March 2004 55.00 South Norfolk 17 May 2004 55.00 Total 5,118.30 496W
ALMO allowance (£) Local authority 2002–03 2003–04 Round 1 ALMOs Ashfield 1,012,603 2,400,000 Derby 1,312,164 3,110,000 Hounslow 1,179,452 3,500,000 Kirklees 1,917,808 6,250,000 Rochdale 835,397 2,420,000 Stockton-on-Tees 1,353,288 4,450,000 Westminster 745,260 2,030,000 Wigan 1,788,932 5,830,000 Round 2 ALMOs Barnsley — 1,856,885 Blyth Valley — 1,329,235 Bolton — 2,619,654 Brent — 2,342,213 Carrick — 109,098 Cheltenham — 422,131 Hillingdon — 86,175 Kensington and Chelsea — 1,580,334 Leeds—North East — 447,072 Leeds—West — 778,210 Oldham — 3,033,211 Total 10,144,904 44,594,218
PFI Authority PFI credits (£ million) Manchester 36.64 Islington 74.69 Reading 49.65 Total 160.98