Social Rented Housing

Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 14 June 2011.

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Photo of Louise Mensch Louise Mensch Conservative, Corby

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

(1) how many payments have been made under the Cash Incentive Scheme under section 111 of the Local Government Act 1972 to social housing tenants in each local authority area in each of the last five years;

(2) how much each local authority has spent on Cash Incentive Scheme payments to social housing tenants in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Photo of Grant Shapps Grant Shapps The Minister for Housing

Local authorities are asked to report annually on the number and value of cash incentive grants made under section 129 of the Housing Act 1988, which provides powers for local housing authorities to make available cash grants to qualifying tenants or licensees of the authority for the purchase of properties on the open market or to carry out works to provide additional accommodation.

The data, reported in section J of their Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix (HSSA) returns, are available at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingstatistics/housingstatisticsby/localauthorityhousing/dataforms/

Figures for the number of grants and total expenditure by each local authority on cash incentive scheme grants for 2001-02 to 2009-10 are available to download. Data on the value of these grants were not collected for 2008-09 and, therefore, are not available. Information for 2010-11 is currently being collected and will be published this autumn.

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