To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many vacant local authority dwellings there are in England, broken down by (a) local authority area and (b) region; and if he will make a statement. [104175]
Information on the number of vacant local authority dwellings at 1 April 2002 in England, broken down by local authority area has been placed in the Library of the House.Numbers of vacant local authority dwellings at 1 April 2002 in England, broken down by region are tabled as follows.
| Region | Number of vacant LA dwellings at 1 April 2002 |
| North East | 8,400 |
| North West | 18,400 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 15,400 |
Region
| Number of vacant LA dwellings at 1 April 2002
|
| East Midlands | 6,200 |
| West Midlands | 10,800 |
| East of England | 3,500 |
| London | 10,000 |
| South East | 3,300 |
| South West | 2,200 |
| England | 78,100 |
Notes:
1. Figures rounded to nearest 100.
2. England total may not equal sum of regional components due to rounding.
3. Regional figures include estimates for numbers of vacant local authority dwellings owned outside a local authority's boundary.
Source:
ODPM's Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix completed by local authorities.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the housing stock is in each London borough in the (a) private rented, (b) council owned and (c) housing association sectors. [104180]
Estimates of the number of housing stock in each London borough in the (a) private rented, (b) council owned and (c) housing association sectors as at April 2001, are shown in the following table:
| Housing stock by rented sector by local authority in London at April 2001 | |||
| Privately rented households1 | LA dwelling stock2 | RSL dwelling stock3 | |
| London4 | 520,900 | 532,200 | 271,100 |
| Inner London4 | 271,900 | 329,700 | 149,900 |
| Camden | 25,400 | 27,000 | 8,200 |
| City of London | 1,300 | 2,100 | 200 |
| Hackney | 14,800 | 28,400 | 18,400 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 17,700 | 14,400 | 10,900 |
| Haringey | 22,000 | 19,800 | 8,900 |
| Islington | 15,300 | 31,400 | 10,600 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 24,000 | 7,300 | 11,900 |
| Lambeth | 25,400 | 35,800 | 16,400 |
| Lewisham | 15,400 | 31,400 | 8,700 |
| Newham | 18,300 | 23,800 | 9,100 |
| Southwark | 15,900 | 49,000 | 11,800 |
| Tower Hamlets | 14,600 | 27,100 | 13,500 |
| Wandsworth | 28,900 | 18,600 | 9,200 |
| Westminster | 33,000 | 13,600 | 11,900 |
| Outer London4 | 249,000 | 202,500 | 121,200 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 4,700 | 23,000 | 1,900 |
| Barnet | 23,500 | 12,100 | 5,300 |
| Bexley | 6,700 | 0 | 13,200 |
| Brent | 20,200 | 10,800 | 11,600 |
| Bromley | 12,200 | 0 | 17,400 |
| Croydon | 20,100 | 15,300 | 8,100 |
| Ealing | 21,400 | 14,900 | 8,000 |
| Enfield | 13,100 | 13,700 | 5,100 |
| Greenwich | 10,700 | 27,600 | 9,300 |
| Harrow | 10,800 | 5,900 | 2,300 |
| Havering | 6,100 | 12,000 | 1,600 |
| Hillingdon | 10,800 | 11,600 | 3,900 |
| Hounslow | 13,400 | 15,100 | 5,200 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 10,700 | 5,100 | 1,600 |
| Merton | 13,400 | 7,200 | 3,900 |
| Redbridge | 13,400 | 5,300 | 3,000 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 14,500 | 0 | 9,200 |
| Sutton | 7,900 | 9,000 | 3,000 |
| Waltham Forest | 15,500 | 13,800 | 7,500 |
1 Source: Census 2001 Key Statistics Table 18. Figures are number of households as at 29 April 2001. Dwelling figures from census not yet available but the difference is not expected to be significant.
2 Source: ODPM Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix 2001–02 return for stock at 1 April 2001.
3 Source: Housing Corporation's annual Regulatory and Statistical Return for stock as at 31 March 2001.
4 Figures may not add up due to rounding.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the administrative costs were of the Housing Corporation for each Government Office of the regions in each year since 1999–2000. [102681]
In meetings its headquarters and field office administration costs, the Housing Corporation incurred expenditure as follows:
| £ million | ||||||
| Year | London | South | Central | North | HQ | Total |
| 1999–2000 | 3.825 | 3.303 | 2.997 | 3.627 | 16.195 | 29.947 |
| 2000–01 | 4.179 | 3.510 | 3.159 | 3.866 | 15.892 | 30.607 |
| 2001–02 | 4.372 | 3.913 | 3.379 | 4.150 | 18.287 | 34.100 |
| 2002–031 | 4.853 | 4.393 | 3.698 | 4.511 | 18.245 | 135.700 |
| 1 The 2002–03 costs are based on current estimates. | ||||||