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Affordable Housing
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The ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Select Committee has resolved to reopen the inquiry into Affordable Housing. Witnesses are invited to submit memoranda to the Committee on the points below and other relevant topics to the Committee before Wednesday 25 September. It is unlikely that memoranda submitted after this date will be published. (Witnesses who wish their memoranda to be treated in confidence should contact the Committee Clerk in advance.) Witnesses should also note that decisions about who to call for oral evidence are likely to be taken on the basis of the evidence received by this date. It is expected that the first oral evidence session on this subject will be held in October.
Evidence to the previous Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee's inquiry will be considered as part of this enquiry. New evidence is sought particularly on the Comprehensive Spending Review 2002:
It should focus on:
- Whether the funds in the Comprehensive Spending Review will achieve the Government's target of a decent home for everyone by 2010;
- How spending of the new resources should be balanced between social housing and options for owner occupation for those who cannot afford to buy (including shared ownership) and the mechanisms to be used for their distribution;
- The role of planning obligations in providing affordable housing;
- The effectiveness of the Housing Market Renewal Fund in tackling housing needs in areas with low demand; and
- How the quality of new affordable housing can be ensured and the poor design of previous house building programmes avoided.
Evidence should be sent to the Clerk, Committee Office, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA, in electronic version in MS Word or Rich Text format, either by e-mail to or on a disk accompanying the hard copy; witnesses without access to a computer are respectfully requested to take particular care that submissions are legible. Please note that memoranda should be limited in length to six A4 pages. Memoranda submitted to the Committee should be kept confidential until published by the Committee.
Guidance on the submission of evidence can be found at www.parliament.uk/selcom/witguide.htm
Contact: Ben Kochan, Committee Specialist 020 7 219 1342.
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