Hull City Council has been allocated an additional £11,250,000 in the current financial year to carry out repair work to its housing stock, as part of the Council's overall Decent Homes programme.

The funding follows an announcement in the Government's Pre-Budget Report last autumn, inviting local authorities and other registered social landlords to bid to bring forward funding from future years.

The Council owns over 27,500 homes, and the size of the housing stock means that Hull's Decent Homes work is the tenth largest in the country. The £11.25m will pay for 1,300 homes to be completed to the Decent Homes standard and supports approximately 115 local jobs. For 2008/09, Hull City Council met its decent homes target, achieving 37% non-decent.

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Hull City Council Housing Portfolio holder Cllr Allen Healand said: "It's great news. Not only can we accelerate work to meet our Decent Homes Standard, the money will also help protect local jobs, most of which will be in the building industry."

Work required to bring the City Council's homes up to the Decent Homes Standard is being carried out by contractors: Kier Support Services Limited, Connaught Partnership Limited and Kingstown Works Limited, which was formerly the Council's direct service organisation.

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