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Social Rented Housing

Volume 489: debated on Wednesday 11 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of all social home lettings were made to people other than homeless applicants in (a) each region and (b) each London local authority area were in each year since 2000-01. (259758)

Information about lettings to local authority landlords is collected via the Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix (HSSA). Estimates of lettings made to people ‘other than homeless applicants’ have been calculated using the total number of all local authority lettings made to both new and existing social housing tenants (but excluding mutual exchanges) less the number of lettings made to households owed the main homelessness duty (section 193(2) of the Housing Act 1996).

Table 1 shows the percentage of all local authority lettings made to households who were not owed the main homelessness duty for each region from 2000-01 to 2007-08.

Table 1: Percentage of all lettings by LA landlords made to applicants other than those owed the main homelessness duty (by region)

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

North East

90.7

88.8

87.1

80.6

79.7

83.1

83.9

85.7

North West

89.7

88.3

85.4

84.7

78.3

76.9

78.7

82.5

Yorkshire and the Humber

87.0

86.1

80.5

75.0

74.8

77.7

79.9

71.8

East Midlands

85.2

82.3

81.3

81.2

78.7

82.5

83.1

83.7

West Midlands

81.1

76.5

73.5

68.5

70.1

74.3

74.7

74.6

East of England

74.6

69.5

65.1

76.9

77.0

80.1

80.7

82.2

London

53.4

50.2

51.1

60.6

61.7

64.8

68.3

67.7

South East

67.3

62.6

62.9

79.0

77.6

80.1

81.5

79.9

South West

71.0

67.4

63.4

69.3

73.7

71.5

77.8

84.0

England

79.9

77.1

74.3

75.2

74.1

76.4

78.2

78.2

Notes:

1. The denominator ‘all lettings’ includes lets made to both new and existing social housing tenants, but excludes mutual exchanges.

2. The figures include general needs and supported housing lets.

Source:

Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix, derived from reported data from local authorities.

Table 2 shows the percentage of all local authority lettings made to households who were not owed the main homelessness duty for each local authority in London from 2000-01 to 2007-08.

Table 2: Percentage of all lettings by LA landlords made to applicants other than those owed the main homelessness duty (by London local authority)

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

Barking and Dagenham

86.7

76.8

69.3

76.6

65.1

95.4

91.3

84.3

Barnet

36.7

34.2

27.3

62.8

70.7

76.8

78.9

65.8

Bexley

Brent

46.7

34.2

46.0

51.0

58.2

44.1

54.4

53.9

Bromley

Camden

62.0

64.0

49.8

63.0

61.6

62.5

79.6

85.9

City of London

91.1

93.6

87.4

94.4

90.9

93.1

92.2

95.3

Croydon

18.5

26.2

60.0

83.6

82.5

86.3

83.7

75.6

Ealing

48.2

47.5

43.8

43.4

63.0

55.5

55.4

56.2

Enfield

61.4

50.8

48.4

51.5

53.7

54.8

51.6

57.7

Greenwich

55.3

62.8

63.2

59.7

64.3

67.4

70.6

74.1

Hackney

67.7

39.2

38.2

52.3

54.2

57.7

58.2

41.2

Hammersmith and Fulham

63.0

48.4

44.0

62.6

65.9

75.1

60.0

57.5

Haringey

30.3

75.8

66.2

60.6

57.1

52.7

70.6

54.9

Harrow

45.9

61.6

61.9

63.8

67.1

69.0

63.9

59.8

Havering

100.0

77.1

78.3

99.5

72.0

91.1

50.4

99.3

Hillingdon

42.1

68.2

45.7

53.2

65.2

73.9

64.5

74.8

Hounslow

50.8

42.7

54.0

47.4

37.3

52.4

56.3

57.7

Islington

44.8

43.9

43.6

40.9

51.9

61.4

61.8

64.1

Kensington and Chelsea

62.4

73.1

62.5

66.5

60.9

54.6

80.5

57.9

Kingston upon Thames

53.4

43.3

42.0

48.0

49.0

56.3

59.9

57.9

Lambeth

52.6

34.7

34.6

42.1

40.3

32.8

45.2

58.5

Lewisham

70.1

65.2

58.1

58.9

53.7

77.1

84.2

58.2

Merton

85.3

78.3

77.3

73.1

66.6

70.0

85.4

94.9

Newham

38.4

33.9

61.8

85.6

87.3

82.2

79.6

77.1

Redbridge

58.7

66.6

63.2

71.5

81.2

80.3

68.5

73.7

Richmond upon Thames

45.3

Southwark

53.6

37.4

41.3

47.0

51.5

61.4

76.6

80.6

Sutton

35.9

39.0

43.2

91.0

83.0

77.4

81.7

80.0

Tower Hamlets

39.3

34.8

39.1

67.5

73.6

41.7

66.0

67.0

Waltham Forest

34.8

33.7

32.6

52.0

62.9

54.8

46.1

50.9

Wandsworth

56.7

50.3

59.3

63.2

63.5

60.4

40.8

44.3

Westminster

45.1

43.2

51.6

43.3

51.3

50.2

63.5

56.2

London

53.4

50.2

51.1

60.6

61.7

64.8

68.3

67.7

‘—’ Indicates no local authority lettings were made due to local authority having undergone a large scale voluntary transfer (LSVT).

Notes:

1. The denominator ‘all lettings’ includes lets made to both new and existing social housing tenants, but excludes mutual exchanges.

2. The figures include general needs and supported housing lets.

Source:

Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix, derived from reported data from local authorities.

Information about lettings to registered social landlords (RSLs) is collected through the Continuous Recordings of Lettings (CORE) system. Estimates of lettings to people ‘other than homeless applicants’ have been calculated using the total number of all registered social landlord lettings made to both new and existing social housing tenants less the number of lettings recorded as being made to households owed the main homelessness duty (section 193(2) of the Housing Act 1996) and who were recorded as having been referred or nominated by a local authority.

Table 3 shows the percentage of all registered social landlord lettings made to households who were not owed the main homelessness duty for each region from 2000-01 to 2007-08.

Table 3: Percentage of all lettings by RSLs made to applicants other than those owed the main homelessness duty (by region)

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

North East

96.6

96.8

94.5

92.5

92.1

91.1

91.1

88.8

North West

95.3

94.6

95.2

93.9

93.3

91.9

91.4

91.5

Yorkshire and the Humber

95.1

95.3

94.7

95.1

94.3

93.0

92.5

90.9

East Midlands

93.8

93.3

92.2

90.1

91.6

89.6

88.7

88.6

West Midlands

93.8

92.5

91.6

89.8

88.0

89.0

89.6

89.3

East of England

90.6

88.9

86.1

84.1

85.5

84.1

83.1

84.8

London

85.5

85.5

84.9

84.5

84.9

84.6

82.1

81.8

South East

86.6

85.8

85.0

83.7

85.9

85.7

85.4

85.4

South West

85.1

84.4

84.0

82.0

83.2

83.3

83.9

82.5

England

91.1

90.6

89.9

88.6

88.6

88.1

87.6

87.3

Notes:

1. The denominator ‘all lettings’ includes lets made to both new and existing social housing tenants.

2. RSLs with less than 250 units are not required to complete CORE returns.

3. The figures include general needs and supported housing lets.

Source:

CORE

Table 4 shows the percentage of all registered social landlord lettings made to households who were not owed the main homelessness duty, for each local authority in London from 2000-01 to 2007-08.

Table 4: Percentage of all lettings by RSLs made to applicants other than those owed the main homelessness duty (by London local authority)

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

Barking and Dagenham

95.0

97.1

96.5

96.1

94.2

75.5

89.0

85.1

Barnet

85.7

83.0

80.5

83.2

88.3

91.1

85.4

78.9

Bexley

77.7

74.8

76.9

80.0

80.9

87.5

82.7

87.3

Brent

83.2

82.6

72.5

78.6

84.8

83.9

81.9

76.8

Bromley

54.1

62.9

58.0

61.2

55.6

62.4

71.3

61.7

Camden

95.6

96.1

97.0

93.4

94.3

92.6

94.6

92.4

City of London

100.0

100.0

97.3

94.7

100.0

100.0

97.5

98.1

Croydon

85.0

84.8

79.0

81.6

86.3

84.1

83.2

83.8

Ealing

83.9

82.9

79.5

71.7

79.3

65.8

62.3

67.9

Enfield

76.0

82.5

75.3

86.1

87.1

85.6

71.6

63.4

Greenwich

94.5

93.0

93.8

93.8

93.4

93.7

88.4

92.6

Hackney

86.4

89.2

87.9

89.3

86.7

88.5

84.0

87.5

Hammersmith and Fulham

90.9

90.3

88.2

84.3

83.6

88.3

76.2

77.4

Haringey

79.6

74.0

76.9

76.9

86.2

84.4

72.3

73.7

Harrow

73.3

65.5

78.5

58.4

69.8

63.5

76.1

77.3

Havering

94.9

93.5

95.8

95.1

84.5

98.3

94.4

91.0

Hillingdon

69.9

70.5

77.4

81.8

76.6

73.5

76.6

74.1

Hounslow

68.0

80.0

77.3

76.4

74.6

80.1

74.3

71.0

Islington

91.3

89.7

87.5

86.0

90.5

92.4

85.1

85.8

Kensington and Chelsea

89.7

89.0

88.3

80.5

82.3

86.4

75.2

81.0

Kingston upon Thames

63.8

78.2

71.3

83.8

71.0

76.0

72.3

66.0

Lambeth

92.5

84.6

86.3

84.0

87.4

87.1

86.7

84.3

Lewisham

89.0

92.1

91.0

90.8

90.9

81.7

88.5

85.1

Merton

88.6

90.8

89.6

89.2

79.2

83.1

87.4

90.2

Newham

89.6

89.7

88.3

92.1

92.9

92.8

90.2

86.4

Redbridge

80.1

86.9

89.4

85.1

94.3

96.1

87.7

89.9

Richmond upon Thames

70.5

70.5

72.4

71.5

65.9

65.3

66.0

64.0

Southwark

90.3

84.1

90.5

85.7

85.1

84.1

80.8

84.8

Sutton

83.1

81.8

79.9

88.4

85.7

83.0

80.5

80.2

Tower Hamlets

91.8

90.1

90.9

91.6

87.4

85.6

80.8

82.5

Waltham Forest

89.1

78.5

82.9

84.6

90.5

90.8

73.4

78.0

Wandsworth

91.7

91.0

86.1

86.6

85.6

87.8

81.1

81.8

Westminster

89.7

92.5

94.3

92.5

93.7

91.2

94.2

91.1

London

85.5

85.5

84.9

84.5

84.9

84.6

82.1

81.8

Notes:

1. The denominator ‘all lettings’ includes lets made to both new and existing social housing tenants.

2. RSLs with less than 250 units are not required to complete CORE returns.

3. The figures include general needs and supported housing lets.

Source:

CORE