Council Housing: Construction

(asked on 13th November 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November 2018 to Question 188715, what proportion of the 20,000 homes which were to be delivered would have been directly supported by the additional £800 million of grant funding.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 21st November 2018

Given that local authorities are now free to borrow for all their housing schemes and bids through the original borrowing programme have fallen away, we are unable to answer this question without incurring disproportionate cost.

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