To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of vulnerable people in each vulnerability group lived in decent private sector homes in each year since 2002; and what estimate she has made of the proportion doing so in 2008-09. (264984)

The English House Condition Survey has published estimates of the proportion of vulnerable households living in decent private sector homes since 2001. Available figures are provided in the following table. The Decent Homes standard was updated in 2006 when the introduction of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System replaced the Fitness Standard as the statutory tool for assessing housing conditions. Figures based on the updated definition from 2006 are not comparable with those based on the original definition. An estimate for 2008 will be published in 2010.