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 homes have been built on brownfield sites in Wirral in each calendar year since 1 January 2011.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Department produces statistics on the estimated percentage of new residential addresses created by previous developed usage. Local authority level figures for 2013-17 are published in live table P302, available from the ‘2016 to 2017 residential address change tables’ at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics
Data at local authority level on residential addresses are made available only as an average over several years as annual data at this spatial scale are volatile between years.
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 take steps to ensure that all brownfield sites are prioritised for development in (a) Wirral and (b) Merseyside.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
I refer the Hon Member to the answer to Question UIN 164879 on 23 July 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, what steps his Department is taking to support the building of new social housing in the (a) North West and (b) Wirral.
Answered by Heather Wheeler
We have announced a range of measures to support housing associations and local authorities to build more genuinely affordable homes where they are needed most.
We are providing over £9 billion funding for the Affordable Homes Programme, which will deliver a wide range of housing for a wide range of people.
We have confirmed long-term rent certainty for social landlords in England and announced that we will be providing councils with £1 billion of additional borrowing to deliver homes where demand is greatest. In March we announced plans to consult on options for allowing local authorities more flexibility in the use of their Right to Buy receipts.
We have recently announced a series of Strategic Partnerships between Homes England and housing associations, which will deliver over 1500 additional affordable homes in the North West by March 2022. One partnership solely delivering in the North West is the £29.2 million package with Great Places, which will deliver 750 additional affordable homes, including some at social rent in areas of high affordability pressure. This is a 36 per cent increase on existing plans.
Since 2010, we have delivered over 378,000 new affordable homes including over 273,000 affordable homes for rent. The Department does not publish delivery information on a regional basis.
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 the core spending power of Wirral Council was in each financial year since 2010-11.
Answered by Rishi Sunak
Prior to the 2016-17 settlement, the definition of spending power changed every year to reflect the changing finance and function of local government. Information on spending power for Wirral Council is published at the following links:
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
2015-16 to 2019-20