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Housing: Rents

Volume 461: debated on Monday 18 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the outstanding arrears of rent on council-owned (a) residential and (b) commercial property are in each London borough. (143026)

The outstanding arrears of rent on council-owned residential property in each London borough are available in the following table. This information for council-owned commercial property is not collected centrally.

Outstanding arrears of rent on council-owed residential property in each London borough, as reported by local authorities

March 2006

£000

Barking and Dagenham

3,618

Barnet

2,309

Bexley

Brent

2,460

Bromley

Camden

4,122

City of London

198

Croydon

2,790

Ealing

5,500

Enfield

2,900

Greenwich

14,991

Hackney

10,909

Hammersmith and Fulham

3,746

Haringey

6,143

Harrow

1,007

Havering

1,096

Hillingdon

2,292

Hounslow

2,190

Islington

10,419

Kensington and Chelsea

1,630

Kingston upon Thames

1,367

Lambeth

16,059

Lewisham

7,125

Merton

1,001

Newham

7,956

Redbridge

1,011

Richmond upon Thames

Southwark

13,472

Sutton

n/a

Tower Hamlets

4,099

Waltham Forest

3,434

Wandsworth

4,646

Westminster

6,203

‘—’ All or most of the local authority stock has been transferred to the registered social landlord sector, so the rent arrears is no longer applicable.

n/a = Data not provided by the London borough of Sutton.

Source:

Communities and Local Government Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Subsidy Form, 2nd Advance.