The Department does not hold data to address the question. The nearest equivalent ‘Percentage of urgent repairs completed within Government time limits’ is collected by the Department through the annual Local Authority Business Plan Statistical Appendix returns. A table with information for the last five years (2002-03 to 2006-07) has been placed in the Library of the House.
Since 2001, many local authorities have chosen to transfer their entire social stock to registered social landlords through the option of large scale voluntary transfer (LSVT). The table reflects the increasing occurrence of these changes over the five year period as data are only collected from authorities which own their own stock or have set up an arm’s length management organisation to manage the stock.