Chamber and committees

Evidence relevant to the Procurement Reform Bill, which is gathered as part of the review of procurement in construction, will be considered as part of the development of the Bill. Equally, evidence submitted as part of the consultation on the Bill, which is relevant to the review of procurement in construction, will be considered as part of the review.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-10124 on 5 November 2012. All answers to written Parliamentary are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-10124 on 5 November 2012. All answers to written Parliamentary are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Robin Crawford and Ken Lewandowski will be supported by a small secretariat team within the Scottish Government, although it will remain for Mr Crawford and Mr Lewandowski to determine how the review should proceed.

Mr Crawford and Mr Lewandowski have indicated that they are seeking the views of a wide range of stakeholders as part of the review. These stakeholders will primarily drawn from across he construction industry, the public sector and social housing sector.

A small consultative group will be established to provide Mr Crawford and Mr Lewandowski with feedback as the review progresses, although it will have no formal role in the development of final recommendations. We anticipate that this group will meet three times over the course of the review, with the first of these to take place in January.

The following table shows grant payments to councils for the construction of new homes for social rent in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2012-11 and (c) 2011-12 under the Council House Build programme. Grant was payable on completion of the homes.

The following table shows the number of housing starts recorded for social rent in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12:

Timing issues affected the number of site starts in 2011-12. Most social housing approvals were made towards the end of that year following the Innovation and Investment Fund processes. In many cases these developments did not start on site until the early months of 2012-13.

The following table shows grant payments to housing associations for the construction of new homes for social rent in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. These figures include expenditure on a small number of rehabilitation projects, as expenditure information for new build only is not held centrally:

Housing Association Outturn Expenditure (£ Million)

£30 million of the additional £40 million announced in the 2013-14 draft budget statement has been allocated to financial year 2012-13. All of this money will be allocated to the Housing Supply Level 4 budget line.

An additional £87 million was added to the Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) budget in February 2012 as a result of Barnett consequentials. All of the additional money was added to the Housing Supply Level 4 budget line across the three years of the Spending Review period.

£45 million of the additional funding was added to the resources which were made available to councils for their three year Resource Planning Assumptions over the period 2012-13 to 2014-15, to support affordable housing supply across Scotland.

The remainder is being deployed to a range of initiatives as follows:-

New Supply Shared Equity with Developers

Open Market Shared Equity Scheme

Housing Infrastructure Loan Fund

Empty Homes Loans Fund

Loans for extensions to the gas grid

Greener Homes Innovation Scheme.