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531446

registered interest
date	01/07/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of local authority-owned properties which have been sold under the Right to Buy scheme and subsequently let by private landlords.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	41636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p>An estimate is not possible because information on successive tenures of dwellings is not held centrally.</p><p>Under Right to Buy there are financial restrictions in place for re-sale within 5 years, and councils have the right of first refusal to buy back the property for up to 10 years at market value.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 07/07/2016 16:34:25 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

506333

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) proposed future Right to Buy replacement houses in the development and planning stage and (b) properties expected to be sold under the Right to Buy scheme in each of the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	32733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>Working with the National Housing Federation, the Government has secured an agreement with the housing association sector to give their tenants the opportunity to buy their home with an equivalent discount to the Right to Buy. This will deliver the manifesto commitment to extend the benefits of Right to Buy to 1.3 million tenants. Under the terms of the agreement housing associations will deliver an additional home through new supply nationally for every home sold – increasing overall housing supply.</p><p>Under the reinvigorated Right to Buy we are firmly committed to making sure that for every additional home sold an additional one will be provided. There is a rolling 3 year deadline for local authorities to deliver additional affordable homes through new build or acquisition under the reinvigorated Right to Buy, and so far they have delivered well within sales profile. By December 2015 there had been 4,594 starts and acquisitions, delivering more than a one for one replacement on the 3054 sales following the first year of reinvigoration.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 13/04/2016 16:07:03 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

506334

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that a home is built to replace every house sold through the Right to Buy scheme.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	32734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>Over 2 million tenants in England have already realised their aspiration of owning their own home, and the voluntary agreement between the Government and the housing association sector will extend this opportunity to a further 1.3 million families the chance to purchase their home at Right to Buy level discounts – unlike Scottish residents who will not be able to benefit at all thanks to the Scottish government’s decision to put an end to Right to Buy as of August this year. Under the terms of the agreement for every home sold housing associations will deliver an additional home nationally, through new supply.</p><p>Under the reinvigorated Right to Buy we are firmly committed to making sure that for every additional home sold an additional one will be provided. There is a rolling 3 year deadline for local authorities to deliver additional affordable homes through new build or acquisition under the reinvigorated Right to Buy, and so far they have delivered well within sales profile. By March 2013 after the first year of reinvigoration there had been 3,054 additional sales and by December 2015 there had been 4,594 starts and acquisitions, meaning councils are delivering within this 3 year profile.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 13/04/2016 16:10:33 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

506350

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that like-for-like replacements are provided in the same local authority area for (a) properties sold under the Right to Buy scheme and (b) properties sold to fund the discounted sale of properties sold under the Right to Buy scheme.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	32951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The voluntary Right to Buy agreement with the National Housing Federation states that housing associations will have the flexibility to replace nationally.</p><p>The 2012 Reinvigorated Right to Buy scheme introduced for the first time ever, a requirement to provide a new affordable home for every additional sale nationally. There is a rolling 3 year deadline for local authorities to deliver additional affordable homes through new build or acquisition under the reinvigorated Right to Buy, and so far they have delivered well within sales profile.</p><p>The Government is committed to using a portion of every receipt from our value vacant housing policy to fund the building of additional homes. The Housing and Planning Bill currently going through Parliament allows the Secretary of State and a local authority to enter into an agreement for the local authority to retain part of its receipts from the policy to lead on the delivery of more homes that meet housing need. Recognising London’s particular housing need, where these agreements are with a local authority in London, every empty dwelling assumed sold will be replaced by at least two new affordable homes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 18/04/2016 16:13:44 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

487138

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Housing Statistical Release Right to Buy Sales October to December 2015, published on 24 March 2016, what the average length of time was from a start on site to occupancy.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	32644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 11/04/2016 16:15:23 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

484394

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on sending out information on the Right to Buy scheme to people who are not housing association or council tenants.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Alan Johnson
uin	32082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department is committed to ensuring eligible council and housing association tenants have up-to-date information about their Right to Buy, so they can make an informed decision as to whether it is the right choice for them. A direct marketing campaign, to social housing tenants who could be eligible for the scheme, has proved a very effective way to reach them with this information.</p><p>Total spend on direct marketing from 2012 is £280,773 in 2012/13, £334,163 in 2013/14, £329,165 in 23014/15 and £195,757 to date in 2015/16. The 2015/16 figure does not include final costs for the most recent wave of direct marketing that took place in February 2016.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 01/04/2016 10:14:54 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	376 label Biography information for Alan Johnson

447190

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, from which budgets in his Department funding for expenditure on the right to buy pilots will be reallocated.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	23861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>Capital budgets (including funding for the Right to Buy pilot) were set from 2016-17 to 2020-21 as part of a zero based exercise across Government Departments at the Spending Review / Autumn Statement.</p><p>Therefore no budget has been reallocated to fund Right to Buy pilots.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 01/02/2016 17:01:18 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

446749

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the findings of his Department's right to buy pilots; what recent estimate he has made of the total cost of providing discounts to tenants eligible for that scheme nationwide and the number of council homes which will need to be sold in the course of that scheme; and what recent assessment he has made of the ability of housing associations to provide a like-for-like replacement for homes sold in the area local to those homes.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	23630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>As set out in the voluntary agreement with the National Housing Federation, tenants of housing associations will be eligible for the equivalent discounts that are available under the Right to Buy (up to £77,900 and £103,900 within London). The Government has been clear that the sale of high value vacant council housing will pay for the cost of compensating housing associations for the discount, so the Right to Buy will be cost neutral. Ahead of full implementation, we have launched the Right to Buy pilot with 5 housing associations.</p><p>Overall there will be an ongoing evaluation of the Right to Buy pilot with the pilot informing the design of the full scheme.</p><p>We are engaging with local authorities and are in the process of updating data that will be used to help inform the high value threshold. Every home sold under the voluntary Right to Buy will result in a new additional home being built nationally.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 29/01/2016 14:02:40 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

446755

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of his Department's right to buy pilots.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	23607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>I refer the rt. hon. member to the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 January, HCWS476, which sets out the Department’s intention to fund administration costs.</p><p>The Statement can be viewed at:</p><p>http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2016-01-19/HCWS476/</p><br /> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 29/01/2016 14:03:32 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

433752

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on advertising the Right to Buy scheme in each month of 2015.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	18460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>My Department has run two targeted campaign bursts during 2015 to make sure eligible council and housing association tenants are aware of their opportunity to buy their home at a discount, through the Right to Buy scheme and to give them up-to-date information on changes to the discount rates and eligibility criteria.</p><p>We are currently in the middle of a burst of the campaign so figures for October and November are provisional and may not reflect all costs incurred. The monthly breakdown of invoiced expenditure for 2015 is:</p><p>January - £5,100<br>February - £68,600<br>March - £299,300 <br>April - £0 <br>May - £100 <br>June - £0<br>July - £200 <br>August - £600 <br>September - £64,700 <br>October - £155,000 <br>November - £171,200</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 07/12/2015 14:28:14 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron