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<p> </p><p><em>[Holding reply: Monday 9 June2014] </em></p><p>The area of Huntingdonshire
District Council comprises all the Huntingdon constituency and part of the North West
Cambridgeshire constituency. Separate figures for the Huntingdon constituency could
be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Figures for the numbers of sales
under the Help to Buy equity loan scheme as at 30 April 2014 broken down by local
authority and postcode sector are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-monthly-statistics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-monthly-statistics</a>.
I have also placed a copy of the table in the Library of the House.</p><p>A figure
for the average age of buyers in Huntingdonshire is not available because central
government does not collect information on the ages of buyers under the Help to Buy
equity loan scheme.</p><p>The average annual total applicant income of the 127 households
that had bought a property within the area of Huntingdonshire District Council under
the Help to Buy equity loan scheme as at 31 March 2014 was £49,181. During this period,
the average purchase price of properties bought under the scheme in the same area
was £213,573 and the total amount of equity loan payments made by central government
was £5,424,768.</p><p>Central government does not collect figures on the numbers of
applications that have been (a) successful or (b) unsuccessful under the Help to Buy
equity loan scheme. A breakdown for Huntingdonshire is therefore not available.</p><p>The
Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme is a matter for the Treasury. Their most recent
statistics show that the average value of the 23 properties in Huntingdonshire that
had been sold under the scheme by 31 March 2014 was £162,228, and that the total value
of loans supported by the scheme for these properties was £3,528,682. This information
is available from Table 7 at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics-october-2013-to-march-2014"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics-october-2013-to-march-2014</a>.</p><p>
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