Council Housing: Construction – Parliamentary Written Answer

John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for CLG how much his Department contributed to local authorities from the National Affordable Housing Programme for the building of new homes in the last five financial years.
Andrew Stunell: The HCA provided £97 million grant in 2009-10 to support local authorities build new council housing under the Local Authority New Build programme (a subset of the National Affordable Housing Programme). There was no direct support for new council housing in the previous four financial years.