Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many council homes have been sold in (a) Ashford constituency and (b) Nottingham in each year since 2010.
Answered by Lord Sharma
The number of local authority dwellings sold by local authority is published in live table 648: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales
Figures are not collected at a constituency level.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many jobs have been created in Ashfield constituency as a result of funding from the European Regional Development Fund since that fund's inception.
Answered by Andrew Percy
The number of jobs created as a result of funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is not available at a constituency level. The recent 2007-13 ERDF Programme is reported to have created 8861 jobs across the East Midlands region (covering the counties of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland) including 164 jobs in the district of Ashfield.
The source of ERDF funding is provided by the overall contributions made by each EU Member State. The United Kingdom currently makes a contribution to the EU, net of what it receives in return. The England European Regional Development Fund Programme for 2014-2020 has a total value of £2.8 billion. As part of this the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership was allocated circa £97 million of funding to deliver a range of projects and initiatives in the local area.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of local authority-owned properties which have been sold under the Right to Buy scheme and subsequently let by private landlords.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
An estimate is not possible because information on successive tenures of dwellings is not held centrally.
Under Right to Buy there are financial restrictions in place for re-sale within 5 years, and councils have the right of first refusal to buy back the property for up to 10 years at market value.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been purchased in (a) England, (b) the East Midlands and (c) Ashfield constituency through the Help to Buy Scheme in each year since that scheme was introduced.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Since the launch of the Help to Buy: Equity Loan, Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee and Help to Buy: NewBuy schemes, the total number of homes sold under all schemes total 138,997 in England, of which 15,684 are in the East Midlands.
Figures for the Help to Buy: Equity Loan and Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee show 494 homes sold in the Ashfield constituency. Figures for the total number of homes sold under the Help to Buy: NewBuy schemes are not published at this level.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) 16 to 24 year old and (b) 25 to 30 year old homeless people have been temporarily housed in bed and breakfast accommodation by their local authority in each of the last five years.
Answered by Marcus Jones
The only age related information held for those in temporary accommodation is for households headed by 16 or 17 year olds. Figures for such households temporarily housed in bed and breakfast accommodation as at 31March for the last five years are as follows;
2011- 160
2012 - 150
2013 - 100
2014 - 60
2015 - 50
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many 16 and 17 year olds presented as homeless to (a) Ashfield District Council and (b) Broxtowe Borough Council in each of the last five years.
Answered by Marcus Jones
The numbers of households with dependent children (including expected children) accepted as homeless in Ashfield and Broxtowe in each of the last five years is shown in the table below. It is not possible to give precise numbers of children in accepted households.
The figure for Broxtowe for 2011/12 is less than five and has been suppressed to avoid the risk of disclosing personal information.
Data are collected on the numbers of households accepted as being in priority need as a result of the applicant being aged 16 or 17. There were less than 5 such cases in Ashfield and Broxtowe during the last five years combined.
Period | Ashfield | Broxtowe |
2010/11 | 15 | 6 |
2011/12 | 9 | * |
2012/13 | 12 | 7 |
2013/14 | 40 | 5 |
2014/15 | 35 | 8 |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many children have been registered as homeless in (a) Ashfield and (b) Broxtowe in each of the last five years.
Answered by Marcus Jones
The numbers of households with dependent children (including expected children) accepted as homeless in Ashfield and Broxtowe in each of the last five years is shown in the table below. It is not possible to give precise numbers of children in accepted households.
The figure for Broxtowe for 2011/12 is less than five and has been suppressed to avoid the risk of disclosing personal information.
Data are collected on the numbers of households accepted as being in priority need as a result of the applicant being aged 16 or 17. There were less than 5 such cases in Ashfield and Broxtowe during the last five years combined.
Period | Ashfield | Broxtowe |
2010/11 | 15 | 6 |
2011/12 | 9 | * |
2012/13 | 12 | 7 |
2013/14 | 40 | 5 |
2014/15 | 35 | 8 |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many families with children living in bed and breakfast have been so accommodated for more than six weeks; and how many families with children were living in bed and breakfast accommodation in (a) each local authority in the East Midlands and (b) England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Marcus Jones
The Department for Communities and Local Government collects figures for the number of households in temporary accommodation as snapshot figures at the end of each quarter. Theattached table shows the number of families with children who were accommodated in Bed & Breakfast hotels (including shared annexes) on 31st December for each year 2010–2014, who were resident for more than 6 weeks, in the East Midlands and England.
Numbers for individual local authorities have not been provided, as they generally relate to very small numbers of households and therefore risk disclosing personal information.
The law is clear that bed and breakfast accomodation should only be used to house homeless in an emergency, and for no longer than six weeks.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many families with children living in bed and breakfast accommodation have been so accommodated for more than six weeks; and how many families with children live in bed and breakfast accommodation in (a) each parliamentary constituency in the East Midlands and (b) England.
Answered by Marcus Jones
Latest published statistics show that 2,570 families with children were in bed and breakfast style accommodation in England as at 31 March 2015. Of these households, 920 had been in bed and breakfast style accommodation for more than six weeks (50 of which were pending review).
The statistics are not compiled on the basis of parliamentary constituencies.
The law is clear that bed and breakfast accommodation should be used to house homeless families only in an emergency, and then for no longer than six weeks. Practice varies significantly across the country with just 5% of councils accounting for 80% of the total number of families stuck in these unacceptable conditions for more than 6 weeks. We provided funding in 2013-14 so that authorities could develop innovative and sustainable approaches to tackle this issue.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the change in average house prices in (a) England, (b) East Midlands, (c) Nottingham and (d) Ashfield constituency in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Annual statistics on median house prices in England, local authority districts and parliamentary constituencies, based on land Registry data, are published by the Office for National Statistics, and are available at the following link.
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/regional-analysis/house-price-statistics-for-small-areas/1995-2013/index.html