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(asked on 2nd September 2019) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Row I on page 14 of his Department's Main Estimates 2019-20 Memorandum, if he will publish a detailed breakdown of each of the two lines of budgeted expenditure under SO1- More land in the right places.


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Jake Berry
This question was answered on 9th September 2019

The information provided below gives details of spending areas under each Strategic Objective as a whole, rather than broken down across Estimate Row. In the Main Estimate Explanatory Memorandum, Strategic Objectives are split across the Department’s Estimate Rows meaning that some Strategic Objectives appear under more than one Estimate Row.

The Department uses Strategic Objectives to allocate out budgets, monitor spend and delivery and report publicly. Under each Strategic Objective are a number of programmes which are made up of a number of Work Areas.

The Department’s budgets for both Programmes and the Work Areas that sit underneath each Programme, are kept under regular review and are revised where necessary to reflect changes in the operating environment. As such, the Department has not provided a further details of budget expenditure for each Work Area as budgets and structure may change during the year.

The Department notes that the level of budgeted expenditure detail provided in the Main Estimate Explanatory Memorandum is in line with guidance issued by the Scrutiny Unit.

Updated budgets for each Programme will be provided at the Supplementary Estimate later in the year.

Expenditure under the Strategic Objectives (SO), Programme and Work Area for Resource DEL budgets are as follows;

UIN

Strategic Objective

Programme

Work Area

284201

SO1

Infrastructure for Housing

Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, Housing Infrastructure Fund

284199

SO1

Market Diversification

Community Housing Fund, Housing Supply: Legacy (Get Britain Building, Local Infrastructure Fund, Custom Build), Housing Supply: Build to Rent, Housing Supply: Estate Regeneration, Home Building Fund: Short Term Investment, Home Building Fund: Long Term Investment

284311

SO1

Public Sector Land

Single Land Programme

284314

Other

Admin including depreciation

Homes England Admin, Leasehold Advisory Services Admin, Homes England Receipts, The Housing Ombudsman Admin, Ebbsfleet Development Corporation Admin, The Regulator of Social Housing Admin

Expenditure under the Strategic Objectives (SO), Programme and Work Area for Capital DEL budgets are as follows;

UIN

Strategic Objective

Programme

Work Area

284300 284316 284327

SO1

Building Affordable Homes

London Settlement, Affordable Homes Programme, Brent Cross, Capital Running Costs, Affordable Homes Guarantee, Right to Buy

284303 284321

SO1

Infrastructure for Housing

Infrastructure to Support Housing, Housing Deals: Greater Manchester, Housing Deals: West Midlands, Oxford-Cambridge Corridor (Ox Cam Arc), Housing Infrastructure Fund, Bicester

284293

SO1

Market Diversification

Planning Inspectorate, Community Housing Fund

284306

SO1

More land in the right places

Land Assembly Fund, Small Sites Fund, Accelerated Construction, LA Land Release Fund, Barking

284309

SO1

Public Sector Land

Public Sector Land

284269

SO2

Social Housing Green Paper

Domestic Abuse

284278

SO2

Leasehold Reform

Leasehold Reform

284274 284287

SO2

Homelessness

Preventing Homelessness, Move On Fund, Flexible Homelessness Support Grant

284284

SO2

Rough Sleeping

Rough Sleeping Strategy

284271

SO4

Adult Social Care

Disabled Facilities Grant

284272

SO5

Building Safety

Technical Policy, Energy Safe Materials, Cladding Remediation, Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety

284298

SO5

Grenfell Recovery

Grenfell Autumn Budget 2017 Commitments, Grenfell Tower Site Management

Reticulating Splines