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Housing (Haringey)

Volume 131: debated on Thursday 21 April 1988

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what were the house building figures in the Haringey borough council area in (a) the public sector and (b) the private sector, on the latest available date, and for each year since 1979.

The reported house building figures up to 1986 appear in the following issues of "Local Housing Statistics" which are available in the Library:

Issue No.Table No.
1979594(b)
5371
1980–83731(b) to (e)
3(b), (c)1
1984771(b)
1985811(b)
1986821(b)
1 House building in Haringey by GLC and housing associations assisted by GLC, recorded separately.
Haringey has not yet made returns for October to December 1987, but the figures for January to September are:—

StartsCompletions
Local authority520
Housing associations46180
Public sector98180
Private sector128137
All226317

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the number of registered homeless people in the Haringey borough council area on the latest available date; and what are the corresponding figures for each year since 1979.

The numbers of households for whom Haringey reported accepting responsibility to secure accommodation under the homelessness provisions of Housing Acts, in each year from 1981 to 1986, appear in a table which was placed in the Library in May 1987.Corresponding information for 1979, 1980 and the first half of 1987 appears in "Local Housing Statistics" which is also available in the Library:

Issue numberTable number
1979 first and second halves5414
1980 first half599
second half6213
1987 first quarter829a
second quarter839
Haringey has not yet reported the figures for the second half of 1987 to the Department.A new reporting system was introduced for London boroughs in the third quarter of 1982, so that figures are not directly comparable over the whole period.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the number of people on council house waiting lists in the Haringey borough council area on the latest available date; and what are the corresponding figures for each year since 1979.

The number of households on waiting lists at April, and the changes in the previous 12 months, appear in columns B51 and B53, respectively, of the 1986 and 1987 housing investment programme "All items prints" which are available in the Library. Information for earlier years is not available centrally.