To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her Department’s latest estimates are of (a) net migration and (b) household growth in each Government office region in England in each of the next 20 years. (103972)

The latest estimates of net migration by Government office region were published by the Office for National Statistics as part of the 2004 based Subnational Population Projections. The table is available at:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/2004_BasedProj/18_Migration_summaries_LAs.xls

The latest estimates of household growth are the 2003 based household projections that were published by DCLG. These are available at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1002882&PressNoticeID=2097

The Department for Communities and Local Government plans to produce updated household projections that take account of the 2004 based subnational population projections.