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Rented Housing

Volume 486: debated on Tuesday 13 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her Department's latest estimate is of the number of families for each London borough housed in (a) council, (b) housing association and (c) private sector tenancies allocated by local authorities; and what the equivalent figures were for (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. (246951)

Local authorities in England report information for numbers of local authority owned (council) dwellings as at 1 April in their annual Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix returns.

Information for the number of dwellings owned by housing associations has been collected by the Tenants Service Authority (formerly the Housing Corporation), via their annual Regulatory and Statistical Return (RSR).

Table 1 provides estimates for numbers of local authority owned dwellings in each London borough for 2007. Figures for 2008 are not yet available, but will be released on 22nd January 2009.

Table 1: Local authority stock by London district (at 1 April)

Local authority

2007

Barking and Dagenham

19,659

Barnet

11,074

Bexley

13

Brent

11,135

Bromley

0

Camden

23,517

City of London

429

Croydon

14,136

Ealing

13,920

Enfield

11,588

Greenwich

24,703

Hackney

23,590

Hammersmith and Fulham

13,248

Haringey

16,964

Harrow

5,091

Havering

10,967

Hillingdon

10,809

Hounslow

13,176

Islington

27,046

Kensington and Chelsea

6,996

Kingston upon Thames

4,869

Lambeth

27,788

Lewisham

26,036

Merton

6,406

Newham

17,958

Redbridge

4,790

Richmond upon Thames

83

Southwark

41,873

Sutton

7,332

Tower Hamlets

15,739

Waltham Forest

10,369

Wandsworth

17,279

Westminster

12,298

London

450,881

This information is also published on the Communities and Local Government website in Table 116 at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/xls/140882.xls

Table 2 provides estimates for numbers of housing association owned dwellings in each London borough for 2007 and 2008.

Table 2: Housing association stock by London district (at 31 March)

Local authority

2007

2008

Barking and Dagenham

3,257

3,440

Barnet

6,804

6,904

Bexley

12,832

12,953

Brent

14,582

15,338

Bromley

18,349

18,513

Camden

10,818

10,715

City of London

543

549

Croydon

9,868

10,203

Ealing

9,662

9,621

Enfield

6,568

6,756

Greenwich

10,657

10,724

Hackney

21,373

21,590

Hammersmith and Fulham

12,295

12,537

Haringey

10,483

10,695

Harrow

3,619

3,640

Havering

2,327

2,509

Hillingdon

5,547

5,866

Hounslow

6,579

6,645

Islington

14,034

14,933

Kensington and Chelsea

13,322

13,365

Kingston upon Thames

2,324

2,298

Lambeth

20,220

21,174

Lewisham

10,917

16,437

Merton

4,725

4,821

Newham

11,677

11,908

Redbridge

4,597

4,625

Richmond upon Thames

9,713

9,790

Southwark

14,357

14,617

Sutton

3,688

4,179

Tower Hamlets

23,903

26,682

Waltham Forest

10,645

10,692

Wandsworth

9,890

10,056

Westminster

15,720

15,821

London

335,895

350,596

Notes:

Includes general needs social housing, supported housing and housing for older people

Information for households housed in private sector tenancies allocated by local authorities is not collected centrally.