To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many (a) social and (b) regulated social landlord properties in each London borough were sold (i) to sitting tenants and (ii) on the open market in each of the last five years. [100273]
Information reported by local authorities and registered social landlords is as follows:
Sales of stock by social landlords* to sitting tenants and others: London 1997–98 to 2001–02
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1997–98
| 1998–99
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LAs to
| LAs to
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Local authority
| Sitting tenants
| Others
| RSLs to Sitting tenants
| Sitting tenants
| Others
| RSLs to Sitting tenants
| LAs to Sitting tenants
|
| Tower Hamlets | 465 | n/a | 0 | 641 | n/a | 0 | 815 |
| Waltham Forest | 192 | 0 | 0 | 190 | 0 | 0 | 289 |
| Wandsworth | 240 | 214 | 0 | 267 | n/a | 0 | 514 |
| Westminster | 164 | n/a | 0 | 270 | 0 | 0 | 403 |
1999–2000
| 2000–01
| 20001–02
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RSLs to
| RSLs to
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Local authority
| Others
| Sitting tenants
| Sitting tenants
| LAs to Others
| Sitting tenants
| Sitting tenants
| LAs to others
| RSLs to Sitting tenants
|
| Barking and Dagenham | 0 | 0 | 527 (3) | n/a | 0 | 374 (3) | n/a | 0 |
| Barnet | n/a | 4 | 252 | 0 | 0 | 169 | 0 | 0 |
| Bexley | 0 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 (3) | n/a | 1 |
| Brent | 0 | 0 | 156 (3) | n/a | 1 | 159 | 0 | 0 |
| Bromley | n/a | 60 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 0 (2) | n/a | 58 |
| Camden | n/a | 0 | 760 | n/a | 0 | 671 | n/a | 0 |
| City of London | 36 | 0 | 50 | 15 | 0 | 39 | 15 | 0 |
| Croydon | 0 | 0 | 249 | 0 | 0 | 259 | 0 | 0 |
| Ealing | 0 | 2 | 330 | 0 | 0 | 309 | 0 | 4 |
| Enfield | 0 | 0 | 216 | 0 | 0 | 210 | 0 | 0 |
| Greenwich | n/a | 0 | 518 | 0 | 2 | 470 | 0 | 0 |
| Hackney | n/a | 10 | 764 | 0 | 17 | 373 (3) | n/a | 2 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 0 | 0 | 380 | 0 | 0 | 221 | 0 | 0 |
| Haringey | 0 | 0 | 239 (2) | n/a | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Harrow | 0 | 0 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 0 | 0 |
| Havering | 0 | 0 | 273 | n/a | 0 | 219 | 0 | 0 |
| Hillingdon | n/a | 1 | 231 | n/a | 0 | 163 | 0 | 1 |
| Hounslow | 0 | 16 | 283 | 0 | 4 | 142(3) | n/a | 1 |
| Islington | n/a | 4 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 844 | 0 | 0 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 0 | 0 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 42 | n/a | 0 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 0 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 1 |
| Lambeth | n/a | 0 | 669 (3) | n/a | 0 | n/a | n/a | 19 |
| Lewisham | n/a | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Merton | 0 | 8 | 164 (3) | n/a | 4 | 165 | 0 | 7 |
| Newham | n/a | 0 | 272 (2) | n/a | 0 | 611 | 0 | 0 |
| Redbridge | n/a | 1 | 129 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 0 | 0 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 0 | 0 | 33 (2) | n/a | 0 | 0 (2) | N/a | 3 |
| Southwark | 0 | 0 | 819 | 0 | 0 | 943 | 0 | 0 |
| Sutton | n/a | 7 | 146 | 3 | 0 | 130 | 0 | 0 |
| Tower Hamlets | n/a | 71 | 1,074 | 0 | 18 | 1,007 | 2 | 41 |
| Waltham Forest | 0 | 0 | 244 | 0 | 0 | 188 | 1 | 0 |
| Wandsworth | n/a | 0 | 333 | 115 | 0 | 149(3) | N/a | 0 |
| Westminster | 8 | 0 | 449 | 6 | 1 | 220 | 2 | 0 |
* Local authorities (LAs) and Registered Social Landlords (RSLs). | ||||||||
Notes:
1. LA sales to sitting tenants include those under Right to Buy (RTB) and similar local schemes, plus Rent to Mortgage (RTM).
2. Other LA sales include all those to owner-occupiers under Built or Improved for Sale, but exclude transfers to RSLs and a small number of unspecified disposals.
3. Where reporting is incomplete, the bracketed figures indicate the number of quarters for which complete information was provided.
4. RSL sales to sitting tenants include RTB, RTM, Preserved RTB (in respect of ex-LA properties), Right to Acquire and Voluntary Purchase Grants.
5. Data on RSL open market stock disposals are not collected centrally at local authority level.
Sources:
1. DETR/DTLR/ODPM Housing Activity return P1B (quarterly); Housing Investment Programme returns (annual).
2. Housing Corporation Continuous Recording (CORE) returns.