Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has allocated to (a) housing regeneration, (b) site clearance, and (c) housing demolitions to prepare sites for redevelopment in each of the last three years.

The Estate Regeneration Programme is currently supporting and working with over 100 estates across the country.

£150 million recoverable loan funding was made available under the 2014/15 Estate Regeneration Programme to support estate regeneration, encouraging partnership working and investment from the private sector. In 2016 this was increased by a further £140 million.

In March 2017, £32 million of grant was allocated to 91 local authorities and housing associations to accelerate schemes at the early stage of estate regeneration.

The Autumn Budget 2017 announced additional funding of £400 million recoverable loan finance.

We are determined that housing growth should be supported by the right infrastructure provided at the right time, which is why we have created the £5 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund to provide infrastructure to potentially unlock up to 600,000 homes in areas where housing need is greatest.