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Housing: Peterborough

Volume 464: debated on Monday 8 October 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what percentage of (a) housing association and (b) private sector housing within Peterborough constituency was judged to be unfit in each year since 1997. (154068)

The percentage of (a) housing association and (b) private sector housing, within Peterborough, judged to be unfit in each year since 1997 is given in the following table. The data are as reported by the local authority.

Percentage of unfit dwellings within (a) housing association and (b) private sector housing, as reported by local authorities

Percentage

(a) HA

(b) Private sector

1997

0.3

20.8

1998

0.6

20.7

1999

0.0

20.6

2000

0.0

19.9

2001

0.0

6.0

2002

0.0

5.6

2003

0.0

6.4

2004

0.3

6.4

2005

0.6

6.4

2006

0.4

6.4

Note: As reported by local authorities. Source: Communities and Local Government Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix return (HSSA).

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many houses were built by (a) private sector companies, (b) housing associations and (c) the local authority within the Peterborough City Council area in each year since 1997. (154069)

Information is available only by the eventual tenure of the dwelling rather than by the group that built the dwellings.

The following table tabulates the number of new build completions by tenure in Peterborough in each year since 1997-98 by tenure.

New Build Completions by Tenure, Peterborough 1997-98 to 2006-07

Private Enterprise

Registered Social Landlords

Local Authority

Total

1997-98

395

0

0

395

1998-99

417

68

0

371

1999-2000

554

8

0

370

2000-01

341

0

0

214

2001-02

334

66

0

311

2002-03

509

2

0

511

2003-04

619

30

0

649

2004-05

747

77

0

824

2005-06

835

49

0

884

2006-07

1,031

180

0

1,211

Source: Returns to CLG from local authorities and the NHBC.