To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of how many private tenants there were in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since 1997. (210968)

Statistics on the number of private tenants at constituency or local authority level are not available on a regular basis. The lowest geographical level for which regular data are available is at the regional level.

The 2001 Census figure for the number of private renting households in the Jarrow constituency is published by the House of Commons Library at the following link:

http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2004/rp04-001b.xls

Then select the "tenure" worksheet.

The 2001 Census figure for the number of private renting households in South Tyneside is published by the Office for National Statistics on their Neighbourhood Statistics website at:

http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=276798&c=South+Tyneside&d=13 &e=16&g=369089&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1213607101 557&enc=1&dsFamilyId=163

Estimates from the Survey of English Housing for the number of private tenancies in the north east and England are given in the following table. Due to small annual sample sizes, these estimates are based on a two year rolling sample.