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Housing: Overcrowding

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number of families living in overcrowded conditions in each London borough in each of the last 10 years. (219276)

The Survey of English Housing, using the bedroom standard, estimates the number of overcrowded households living in London over the last 10 years were:

Overcrowded households1(Thousand)

1997-98

156

1998-99

159

1999-2000

161

2000-01

166

2001-02

170

2002-03

172

2003-04

175

2004-05

189

2005-06

203

2006-07

203

1 Three year moving average

It is not possible to derive estimates at a local authority level.