Current status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new and improved homes for social rent and low-cost home ownership approved with funding from Communities Scotland were completed in the financial years (a) 2001-02, (b) 2002-03 and (c) 2003-04.
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
Ministers have given a commitment to approve 18,000 new and improved homes for social rent and low cost home ownership in the three years up to 2006. The principal mechanism for funding this new affordable housing is the Scottish Executive Housing Investment Programme. The number of new and improved homes for social rent and low-cost home ownership approved with funding from CommunitiesScotland which were completed in the financial years 2001-02 and 2003-04 are asfollows.
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| Social Rent | Low Cost Home Ownership |
| 2001-02 | 4,629 | 1,550 |
| 2002-03 | 4,008 | 1,060 |
| 2003-04 | 3,654 | 500 |
The number of completions in an individual year is largely determined by the nature of the projects approved for construction in previous years. Large or complex housing projects, especially when linked to wider regeneration initiatives, will take over a year to be completed and in some instances, there is a time-lag in the recording of this data and these figures can therefore be subject to revision.