• Reference: 2024/1899
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

What is the average length of time from a new-build dwelling being bought via market sale to being used by housing providers as affordable housing under the Right to Buy-back fund?

• Reference: 2024/1898
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

How many acquisitions of market sale homes under the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-23 were considered to be ‘long-term empty’ (uninhabited for at least six months), and how much funding does this amount to?

• Reference: 2024/1897
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

How are you using your Community Housing Fund to scale-up the number of cooperative housing residences in London?

• Reference: 2024/1896
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

How are you using your Community Housing Fund to increase the number of community land trusts in London, and enable them to provide genuinely affordable housing?

• Reference: 2024/1895
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

How many funding allocations under the Affordable Homes Programme 2016-23 are expected to involve demolition and rebuild? Could you provide details of what sites they relate to and how much funding has been allocated for each project.

• Reference: 2024/1894
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

How many sites do you hope to make available to small builders through the Small Sites Small Builders programme in the next 12 months?

• Reference: 2024/1893
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

Could you outline what impact your Housing Kickstart Fund has had since it was launched in March 2024, including how many developments have been kickstarted as a result, and how many additional affordable homes these developments are expected to deliver?

• Reference: 2024/1892
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

In the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-2026 Funding Guidance, it says: “Registered Providers will be eligible to drawdown grant allocations of 40 per cent at land acquisition, 35 per cent at start on site and the remaining 25 per cent at completion. These payment proportions may be varied on some projects, subject to GLA agreement.” How many contracts awarded have deviated from this norm, and what are the payment proportions in each case?

• Reference: 2024/1891
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

What proportion of providers awarded funding under the Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) 2021-26 have yet to complete projects in the AHP 2016-23?

• Reference: 2024/1890
• Question by: Zoë Garbett
• Meeting date: 20 June 2024

Thank you for your answer to question 2023/2614. Could you provide me with latest figures, update the spreadsheet supplied with your answer, and tell me what concerns you have about the pace of progress in redesigning schemes?