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Immigration: EC Enlargement

Volume 462: debated on Thursday 28 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will estimate the likely impact on the number of houses in multiple occupation in (a) Peterborough and (b) local authorities in the eastern region of the migration of new EU member state citizens to these areas since 2004; and if she will make a statement. (145306)

The Department recognises the impact of EU migration and, in partnership with the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), is currently developing a toolkit of good practice guidance for local authorities on issues such as overcrowding in Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs).

The number of HMOs in local authority areas has been collected by the Department through the Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix (HSSA) since 2001. The following table indicates the number of HMOs in Peterborough since 2004.

Housing strategy statistical data

Number of HMOs in the City of Peterborough

2003-04

800

2004-05

1,000

2005-06

1,000

The following table indicates the number of HMOs in all local authorities in the eastern region since 2004.

Housing strategy statistical data

Local authority area

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

Babergh

30

30

30

Basildon

25

40

38

Bedford

450

450

450

Braintree

53

50

50

Breckland

316

468

506

Brentwood

70

50

50

Broadland

400

100

88

Broxbourne

35

63

75

Cambridge

3,717

3,717

3,717

Castle Point

1

8

290

Chelmsford

358

82

91

Colchester

438

164

191

Dacorum

46

36

40

East Cambridgeshire

40

40

40

East Hertfordshire

92

97

96

Epping Forest

4,400

130

250

Fenland

163

300

300

Forest Heath

100

59

150

Great Yarmouth

550

550

550

Harlow

74

79

132

Hertsmere

76

76

76

Huntingdonshire

52

52

52

Ipswich

687

953

958

Kings Lynn and West Norfolk

216

300

315

Luton

812

884

821

Maldon

11

20

7

Mid Bedfordshire

23

14

8

Mid Suffolk

55

42

53

North Hertfordshire

61

60

60

North Norfolk

373

373

57

Norwich

1,500

1500

1900

Peterborough

800

1000

1000

Rochford

40

40

12

South Bedfordshire

164

1

1

South Cambridgeshire

473

284

284

South Norfolk

78

29

589

Southend-on-Sea

158

159

150

St. Albans

326

305

333

St. Edmundsbury

76

78

86

Stevenage

320

320

86

Suffolk Coastal

414

321

339

Tendring

242

233

227

Three Rivers

48

56

17

Thurrock

163

256

179

Uttlesford

25

0

50

Watford

217

216

216

Waveney

30

25

40

Welwyn Hatfield

1,400

1,400

1,400

1 No return.

The Department does not currently hold data for 2006-07.