Affordable Housing
(asked on 20th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Government has spent on affordable housing in (a) England, (b) the South East, (c) Surrey and (d) Elmbridge in each year since 2005.
Affordable housing expenditure for England, Surrey and Elmbridge in each year since 2005 is set out below.
England | Surrey | Elmbridge | ||
£m | £m | £m | ||
2013-14 | 965 | 11 | 0.9 | |
2012-13 | 1,083 | 14 | 1 | |
2011-12 | 1,578 | 17 | 0.9 | |
2010-11 | 2,660 | 34 | 4 | |
2009-10 | 3,737 | 46 | 6 | |
2008-09 | 2,612 | 45 | 2 | |
2007-08 | 2,029 | 37 | 5 | |
2006-07 | 1,921 | 45 | 2 | |
2005-06 | 1,577 | 47 | 5 |
The budget for the supply of new affordable housing in 2014-15 is £1,239 million. However, this under-states the total level of affordable housing investment under this Government. Our Affordable Homes Programme is on track to deliver and surpass 170,000 new affordable homes between 2011 and 2015, and lever in £19.5 billion of public and private investment.
A further £38 billion of public and private investment will help ensure 275,000 new affordable homes are provided between 2015 and 2020. This means over the next Parliament we will build more new affordable homes than during any equivalent period in the last twenty years. Funding is allocated through competitive bidding and there are no top down targets for particular areas.
We do not publish regional statistics, nor does our housing or planning policy operate on the old Government Office Regions.