To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the average age of (a) males and (b) females, when they move out of the parental home; and what the average age of first time buyers in (i) Hampshire and (ii) England was in each year since 1997. (151039)

Data at the Hampshire level are unavailable due to sample sizes. The information for first time buyers is provided for the UK rather than England.

Based on the Survey of English Housing for 2005-06, the average age of males when leaving the parental home in England was estimated at 25 years. The average age for females in England was estimated at 22 years.

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) figures for median age of first time buyers are available on their website at:

http://www.cml.org.uk/cml/filegrab/1ML2.xls?ref=4624

This is based on data from all mortgage completions in the UK and the data are presented in the following table: