Social Rented Housing
Communities and Local Government
Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many tenants have moved through the HomeSwap Direct scheme since its launch.
Grant Shapps (Minister of State (Housing and Local Government), Communities and Local Government; Welwyn Hatfield, Conservative)
I refer the hon. Member to the response I gave on
The success of the new nationwide home swap scheme HomeSwap Direct, which has already enabled tenants to carry out over 1 million searches, is in stark contrast to the performance of the MoveUK mobility scheme—a centrally prescribed service, contracted out to a single private provider and funded at the taxpayers' expense, which the previous Government designed and then failed to deliver.