Social Rented Housing: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number of homes in the social housing sector which do not meet the Decent Homes standard in each region in England. (264159)

The information requested is provided in the table.

*Social housing stock summary as at 31 March 2008*
Region	RSL homes which fail DHS	LA homes which fail DHS	Total
East Midlands	10,850	42,456	53,306
East of England	26,085	27,896	53,981
London	35,357	140,138	175,495
North East	16,094	55,579	71,673
North West	58,053	36,072	94,125
South East	18,422	39,856	58,278
South West	16,872	24,315	41,187
West Midlands	11,639	50,799	62,438
Yorkshire and the Humber	31,195	72,334	103,529
Total	224,567	489,445	714,012
Sources: 1. Registered social landlord data from the Regulatory Statistical Return Part Q4 (long) Part Q6 (short). 2. Local authority data from the Business Plan Statistical Appendix.

Since 2007 the number of non-decent homes in local authority stock has reduced from 618,000 and from 254,000 in the RSL sector. The overall reduction in the percentage of non-decent homes in the social sector since 2007 is from 21.8 per cent. to 18.0 per cent. in 2008.

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 17 March 2009