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Housing: Low Incomes

Volume 479: debated on Monday 1 September 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of social housing in each London borough is not of Decent Homes standard. (219277)

The Department collects information on non-decent social sector homes from local authorities through the Business Plan Statistical Appendix (BPSA) annual return. Figures are provided in Table 1.

Table 1: Non-decent homes owned by local authorities1 at 1 April 2007, by London borough

Non-decent homes

Percentage of total local authority stock non-decent

Barking and Dagenham

6,727

34.2

Barnet

3,388

30.5

Bexley

2

2

Brent

0

0.0

Bromley

2

2

Camden

11,321

47.7

City of London

679

35.9

Croydon

2,117

15.0

Ealing

4,439

32.1

Enfield

2,864

24.1

Greenwich

9,446

38.2

Hackney

8,776

37.5

Hammersmith and Fulham

4,183

31.7

Haringey

7,099

42.7

Harrow

3,680

72.5

Havering

3,397

31.4

Hillingdon

918

8.6

Hounslow

0

0.0

Islington

11,996

44.8

Kensington and Chelsea

1,657

23.9

Kingston upon Thames

1,129

23.2

Lambeth

8,528

29.2

Lewisham

12,152

46.8

Merton

1,289

20.1

Newham

10,842

58.1

Redbridge

1,357

28.8

Richmond upon Thames

2

2

Southwark

13,608

33.1

Sutton

4,088

56.2

Tower Hamlets

9,257

59.0

Waltham Forest

6,846

64.4

Wandsworth

138

0.8

Westminster

0

0.0

1 Retention authorities and Arm’s Length Management Organisations only. 2 LSVT—Large Scale Voluntary Transfer. One of the three options set out by Government for those authorities that need extra funding to meet the required Decent Homes standard. LSVT aims to deliver improved performance and services ensuring the extra money is spent cost-effectively. The council is free to focus on more strategic housing functions. Source: Communities and Local Government Business Plan Statistical Appendix (BPSA).

These data are published by Communities and Local Government and can be obtained from the Department's website:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingstatistics/housingstatisticsby/localauthorityhousing/dataforms/357553/databyregion/

Equivalent figures for registered social landlords (RSLs) are displayed in Table 2. These figures are published and available on the Housing Corporation's website:

http://www.rsrsurvey.co.uk/

Table 2: Non-decent homes owned by RSLs at 31 March 2007, by London borough

Non-decent homes

Percentage of total stock non-decent

Barking and Dagenham

67

2.1

Barnet

444

6.5

Bexley

1,216

9.5

Brent

949

6.5

Bromley

4,348

23.7

Camden

757

7.0

City of London

52

9.6

Croydon

1,073

10.9

Ealing

398

4.1

Enfield

483

7.4

Greenwich

1,470

13.8

Hackney

1,033

4.8

Hammersmith and Fulham

1,319

10.7

Haringey

1,333

12.7

Harrow

328

9.1

Havering

194

8.3

Hillingdon

254

4.6

Hounslow

650

9.9

Islington

1,546

11.0

Kensington and Chelsea

1,611

12.1

Kingston upon Thames

110

4.7

Lambeth

4,372

21.6

Lewisham

1,380

12.6

Merton

268

5.7

Newham

912

7.8

Redbridge

302

6.6

Richmond upon Thames

662

6.8

Southwark

1,464

10.2

Sutton

280

7.6

Tower Hamlets

3,974

16.6

Waltham Forest

828

7.8

Wandsworth

956

9.7

Westminster

1,703

10.8

Source:

Housing Corporation's Regulatory Statistical Return (RSR) Part O.