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The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households have used Government-funded home ownership schemes in England in each of the last 30 years.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
Over the past 30 years, various government-funded home ownership schemes have supported first-time buyers in England.
As these schemes were administered by different organisations, some of which no longer exist, there is no single, centralised, and comprehensive data source capturing the total number of households assisted over the full period in question.
The number of households helped between April 2013 and 31 May 2023, using a Help to Buy: Equity Loan and between March 2012 and 8 September 2015 using Help to Buy: NewBuy scheme can be found on gov.uk here.
There is also sales data available on gov.uk on Right to Buy from 1980-81, Right to Acquire from 1998-99, and Social HomeBuy from 2006-07 in Live Tables 678, 677 and 683 respectively which are published here.
Although data on sales through individual affordable home ownership schemes such as First Homes, Affordable Home Ownership, and Shared Ownership is not available, the number of new delivered homes under these tenures, which can be used as a proxy, is available in Live Table 1000 here.
These have been delivered using a mix of funding sources, including government funding and developer contributions.
Data on the Mortgage Guarantee Scheme since launching in April 2021 is available here.
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