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The three-year plan: what Whitehall is spending in England
	2001/2	2002/3	2003/4
Major repairs allowances to local authorities	£1.6bn	£1.512bn	£1.403bn
	Equivalent to about 300,000 council house improvements
Housing Corporation capital programme for housing associations	£789m	£940m	£1.241bn
	Up to 25,150 new dwellings	Up to 24,600 new dwellings	Up to 25,200 new dwellings
Large scale voluntary transfer pool	£50m	£100m	£100m
	To transfer 200,000 council dwellings each year to housing associations for repair, maintenance and improvement
Arm’s-length management companies	£0	£160m	£300m
	About 100,000 house improvements
Starter Homes Initiative	£50m	£100m	£100m
	Towards home ownership by 10,000 key workers
Disabled facilities grant	£87m	£88m	£89m
	Towards installing disabled facilities in about 28,000 homes a year
Home improvement agencies	£9m	£9m	£9m
Rough Sleepers Unit and homelessness	£30m	£30m	£30m
Private finance initiative for housing	£160m	£300m	£300m
	To repair about 50,000 council dwellings
Housing Investment Programme to local authorities	£705m	£793m	£842m
	Single capital pot covering council house improvements, low-income private house improvements, grants to housing associations and other expenditure
Total central government capital expenditure on social housing construction	£3.480bn	£4.032bn	£4.414bn
Source: DTLR. Note: Table excludes councils’ and housing associations’ own resources and private investment.