Adam, You're right; we won’t have seen much if any movement on house building from the NHB yet. Zach at the Centre wrote a blog about the statistics when they came out earlier this year: http://centreforcities.typepad.com/centre_for_cities/2012/02/framing-the-statistics.html Despite payments going out to local authorities, the earliest we should expect to see a noticeable impact of the NHB will be next year’s payout.

Thanks Simon. We're currently writing a paper as part of our Agenda for Growth series on how to support enterprise growth - given that all the net new jobs over at least the next five years will need to come from the private sector - so the article's very relevant.