AQO 8230/11-15

Mr Chris Lyttle
Alliance Party
East Belfast

Tabled Date: 07/05/2015
Answered On Date: 19/05/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Social Development for an update on the progress of the Department for Social Development and Northern Ireland Housing Executive Asset Commission, Asset Management Strategy and five year investment plan for Northern Ireland Housing Executive stock.

Answer:

The Department for Social Development and Northern Ireland Housing Executive Asset Commission is nearing an end. The field work to survey the Housing Executive’s residential portfolio is complete, with approximately one in four Housing Executive homes having benefited from a detailed condition survey. The Housing Executive is now working closely with the appointed consultants to quality assure and collate the data that has been collected.

Data analysis is also underway for the purpose of generating a number of strategic and tactical outputs – all of which will assist both my Department and the Housing Executive to provide improved housing for the future.

Housing Executive staff, supported by consultants, are in the process of developing and drafting the Housing Executive’s Asset Management Strategy, which draws upon and reflects the stock conditions survey results.

The investment principles arising from the finalised Asset Management Strategy will then be fed into an investment planning process by the Housing Executive to deliver its projected five year investment plan. It is anticipated that formal review and approval of draft outputs will allow these to be ready later this year.