Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much has been allocated in new homes bonus payments to Wirral council in each year since 2011.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
The table below sets out New Homes Bonus allocations to the Wirral Council in each year since 2011. Provisional allocations for 2019/20 were announced in December last year and will be confirmed alongside the final Local Government Finance Settlement.
Table: Wirral Council New Homes Bonus allocations
Year | Amount |
Year 1 (2011-12) | £260,019 |
Year 2 (2012-13) | £1,000,472 |
Year 3 (2013-14) | £1,516,283 |
Year 4 (2014-15) | £1,768,209 |
Year 5 (2015-16) | £2,597,583 |
Year 6 (2016-17) | £3,177,853 |
Year 7 (2017-18) | £2,264,181 |
Year 8 (2018-19) | £1,519,543 |
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Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many new starter homes have been built in (a) Wallasey and (b) Merseyside in each of the last two years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
No starter homes have yet been built as the regulations required to define them are not yet in place. The new National Planning Policy Framework, published in July this year, brought starter homes within the definition of affordable housing, as per our Housing White Paper commitment. We expect to make an announcement on the next steps for starter homes in the near future.
In the meantime we are supporting people's aspirations to buy through a range of initiatives including Help to Buy, Right to Buy, greater funding for Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy. Since Spring 2010 Government-backed schemes have helped over 481,000 households to buy a home and the number of first-time buyers is at a nine-year annual high. The Stamp Duty exemption for first time buyers announced last autumn helped 121,500 people by June 2018.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many new starter homes have been built in (a) Wallasey and (b) Merseyside in each of the last two years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
No starter homes have yet been built as the regulations required to define them are not yet in place. The new National Planning Policy Framework, published in July this year, brought starter homes within the definition of affordable housing, as per our Housing White Paper commitment. We expect to make an announcement on the next steps for starter homes in the near future.
In the meantime we are supporting people's aspirations to buy through a range of initiatives including Help to Buy, Right to Buy, greater funding for Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy. Since Spring 2010 Government-backed schemes have helped over 481,000 households to buy a home and the number of first-time buyers is at a nine-year annual high. The Stamp Duty exemption for first time buyers announced last autumn helped 121,500 people by June 2018.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to empower local authorities to prevent developers from building on greenbelt land when allocated brownfield sites with existing planning permissions granted have not been developed in that local authority area.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Government is committed to maintaining strong protections for the Green Belt. The revised National Planning Policy Framework will clarify what ‘exceptional circumstances’ means for local authorities considering altering a Green Belt boundary. This includes making as much use as possible of suitable brownfield and under-used land.
The Government provides support to local authorities through mechanisms including the New Homes Bonus, loans from the Home Building Fund, Land Remediation Relief and Enterprise Zone and Housing Zone designations.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities in Wirral which have a shortage of brownfield sites with exemptions under the proposals for the National Plan.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
I refer the Hon Member to the answer to Question UIN 164879 on 23 July 2018.