Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what central Government funding was allocated to the London Borough of Redbridge in each year since May 2010.
Answered by Marcus Jones
The table below shows Redbridge's revenue support grant in each year since 2010. Prior to 2013-14, the Government allocated councils Formula Grant, funded from redistributed business rates and Revenue Support Grant. In 2013-14 the Government introduced 50 per cent business rates retention. Therefore, Revenue Support Grant before 2013-14 is not comparable to Revenue Support Grant from 2013-14 onwards. Redbridge will also have received funding from other government departments through Section 31 grants administered by DCLG. The table also presents Redbridge's total net current expenditure for each year in the period where the data is available.
Year | Revenue Support Grant (£millions) | Redistributed Business Rates (£millions) | Formula Grant (£millions) | Net current expenditure (£millions) |
2010-11 | 12.4 | 85.6 | 98.0 | 607.5 |
2011-12 | 23.9 | 77.2 | 101.1 | 606.2 |
2012-13 | 1.8 | 94.3 | 96.1 | 612.7 |
2013-14 | 70.2 | - | - | 627.6 |
2014-15 | 58.1 | - | - | 621.6 |
2015-16 | 42.9 | - | - | 620.4 |
2016-17 | 33.0 | - | - | 619.1 |
2017-18 | 23.2 | - | - | - |
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of home ownership since 2010.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Annual home ownership statistics are published in the Department’s English Housing Survey. We are committed to one million more first time buyers over this Parliament, doubling the number achieved in the last Parliament. We are currently at a seven-year annual high with 264,500 first time buyers in England in 2014.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
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 homeless people in the UK in each year since May 2010; and what steps he is taking to prevent homelessness in the UK.
Answered by Marcus Jones
The homelessness legislation in England provides one of the strongest safety nets in the world for families with children and vulnerable people who become homeless through no fault of their own. Since 2010, the Government has invested over £500 million to support local authorities and voluntary sector agencies to prevent and tackle homelessness. This has helped prevent over 700,000 cases of homelessness by finding new accommodation or helping people stay in their own home.
Statistics on homelessness in England are published on a quarterly basis at the following address; https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness
Homelessness acceptances are now less than half of the peak seen under the previous Labour administration when it reached 135,590 in 2003.