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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will list each of the councils receiving the New Home Bonus where there has been an increase in the number of new homes built in those areas by (a) 0.4 per cent or below and (b) above 0.4 per cent in each year since 2011-12.

The attached table is a list of the councils receiving New Home Bonus where there has been an increase in the number of new homes built in those areas by (a) 0.4 per cent or below and (b) above 0.4 per cent in each year since 2011-12. The Government has introduced a baseline to ensure that the New Homes Bonus is focussed on local authorities demonstrating a stronger than average commitment. The 0.4% baseline below which the Bonus will not be paid, reflects a percentage of housing that would have been built anyway and is about half of historic levels of housing growth. Over 75% of authorities have achieved growth of above 0.4% in each year rewarded since the introduction of the Bonus in 2011, and for payments in 2016/17 90% of authorities achieved a growth rate of 0.4% or more.