Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been purchased using the Right to Buy Equity Loan Scheme in (a) Wakefield and (b) West Yorkshire since 2013.

There is no Right to Buy Equity Loan Scheme; however, Government has provided the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme since 2013.

Between 1 April 2013 and 31 December 2020, 11,433 homes were purchased within the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire (which is comprised of the boroughs of Bradford, Leeds, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield) using the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme. Further data on the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-data-to-31-december-2020/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-data-to-31-december-2020