Emma Reynolds:
To ask the Secretary of
State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) homes and (b)
affordable homes have been completed under the Get Britain Building scheme to date;
and what estimate he has made of the number of jobs created by that scheme.
Brandon Lewis:
From 2012-13 to
September 2014, there have been 12,293 dwellings started, against the target of
12,000. The scheme is primarily aimed at unlocking stalled market housing, and
is not an affordable housing programme as such; however, there have been 1,397 affordable
starts which have been unlocked as part of wider schemes. Completions lag
behind starts due to the time it takes to build out a site, but 4,890 dwellings
had been completed to September 2014, and this figure will continue rising. We estimate that the Get Britain
Building programme is supporting between 1 to 2 jobs per unit, which suggests
that up to 24,586 jobs have been supported so far. [Edit]
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