Question reference: S6W-05643
- Asked by: Neil Gray, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 10 January 2022
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Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 January 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been allocated to North Lanarkshire Council to build council housing in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Government Council House Build Programme was introduced in April 2009, the aim being to incentivise local authorities to build new homes. This was the first such central government support to councils in a generation.
Our allocation through the Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) is not specific to council house building but for all social landlords across the council area. The following table, however, does show the actual funding spent by North Lanarkshire Council from the AHSP for council house building between 2009/10 and 2020/21.
Financial Year | Funding provided through the AHSP £m |
2009-10 | 0.00 |
2010-11 | 0.00 |
2011-12 | 0.00 |
2012-13 | 3.200 |
2013-14 | 2.053 |
2014-15 | 4.592 |
2015-16 | 1.832 |
2016-17 | 5.200 |
2017-18 | 11.919 |
2018-19 | 5.660 |
2019-20 | 13.107 |
2020-21* | 9.668 |
Total | 57.231 |
*Funding for 2020-21 cannot be confirmed at this time as figures have not been published in the out-turn reports, and as we are currently working on the programme for 2021-22, we cannot provide this information.
A more comprehensive annual breakdown by local authority and programme type, including expenditure, is made available each year in the published Scottish Government Affordable Housing Supply Programme Out-turn Reports.
Out-turn reports can be accessed using the following link: https://www.gov.scot/policies/more-homes/affordable-housing-supply/ .