To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her estimate is of the number of homes built in Bournemouth in each of the last five years which have been purchased as second homes. (148314)

Information on the number of new homes built that have been purchased as second homes is not available centrally.

At 10 October 2005, around 2,500 dwellings of the total 80,300 stock in Bournemouth district council had a “second homes” discount on council tax (3.1 per cent.) according to figures reported by Bournemouth district council.

Source: Council Tax Base (CTBI) returns.