The outstanding arrears of rent on council-owned residential property in each London borough in March 2005, March 2004, March 2003 and March 2002 are available in the following table. The information for council-owned commercial property is not collected centrally.
£000 2002 2003 2004 2005 Barking and Dagenham 2,988 2,678 2,956 3,530 Barnet 1,938 1,724 2,243 2,224 Bexley 1— 1— 1— 1— Brent 3,956 3,0i3 3,761 3,194 Bromley 1— 1— 1— 1— Camden 4,697 4,424 5,015 4,293 City of London 240 177 142 189 Croydon 4,222 0 3,823 3,005 Ealing 7,950 7,059 6,772 6,255 Enfield 3,432 3,217 2,925 2,918 Greenwich 16,242 15,764 15,944 15,104 Hackney 27,506 25,961 21,834 14,350 Hammersmith and Fulham 4,024 3,796 3,797 3,826 Haringey 12,226 8,716 6,741 5,749 Harrow 677 1,566 1,361 1,219 Havering 1,429 1,761 1,832 1,445 Hillingdon 2,643 2,422 2,494 2,446 Hounslow 2,970 3,024 2,328 2,436 Islington 17,807 17,121 18,252 13,845 Kensington and Chelsea 2,367 2,370 1,745 2,701 Kingston upon Thames 1,426 1,629 1,844 1,864 Lambeth 29,329 23,190 17,154 21,505 Lewisham 8,448 7,622 6,835 7,614 Merton 1,014 927 993 1,086 Newham 8,066 7,291 7,538 10,763 Redbridge 1,343 1,088 1,155 1,232 Richmond upon Thames 1— 1— 1— 1— Southwark 25,117 17,293 15,734 12,359 Sutton 2,280 2,041 2,791 n/a Tower Hamlets 4,327 4,001 4,515 8,459 Waltham Forest 5,146 4,603 5,845 4,278 Wandsworth 6,587 5,833 4,801 4,433 Westminster 5,205 5,029 4,479 4,489 n/a = Data not provided by the London borough of Sutton in 2005. 1 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most of the local authority stock has been transferred to the Registered Social Landlord sector, so the rent arrears is no longer applicable. Source: Communities and Local Government Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Subsidy Form, 2nd Advance.