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Northern Ireland Executive (Tenant Debt)

Volume 453: debated on Tuesday 28 November 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average amount of outstanding debt owed by (a) tenants and (b) past tenants of the Northern Ireland Executive was at the end of 2005, broken down by district council. (104010)

The information is not available in the form requested. The following table details current and past tenants’ debt by Housing Executive District Office at financial year end March 2006. The figures include housing benefit overpayments raised before April 2004 as well as rent and rates arrears. It is not possible to separate out these figures.

Current and past tenants debt at 31 March 2006

£

Average tenant debt

Average past tenant debt

Belfast 1

1,381

966

Belfast 2

1,190

936

Belfast 3

1,268

1,101

Belfast 4

1,246

958

Belfast 5

1,325

783

Belfast 6

1,979

1,324

Belfast 7

739

690

Belfast Area

1,255

924

Bangor

1,218

1,105

N’ards

989

658

Castlereagh

1,006

900

Lisburn

1,120

809

Lisburn 3

1,250

857

D’patrick

1,158

965

S East Area

1,102

845

Banbridge

1,075

458

Newry

1,064

785

Armagh

1,001

707

Lurgan/B’low

1,050

511

P’down

1,159

1,126

Dungannon

1,318

885

Fermanagh

1,088

488

South Area

1,103

682

B’mena

845

594

Antrim

860

397

N’abbey 1

847

597

N’abbey 2

923

729

Carrick

838

674

Larne

805

613

B’castle

865

536

B’money

793

481

Coleraine

891

725

N East Area

857

628

W’loo Place

834

392

Waterside

1,408

1,200

Coll Terr

1,573

664

Limavady

1,196

813

M’felt

1,106

522

Strabane

1,251

1,099

Omagh

987

771

Cookstown

1,339

362

West Area

1,220

820

NI total

1,114

800