Warm Front Scheme: Bexley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many boilers installed under the Warm Front scheme in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency have required repair on (a) one, (b) two, (c) three and (d) four or more occasions. (266903)

I have been asked to reply.

The Warm Front scheme offers an aftercare provision with cover for parts and labour under all installed gas central heating systems for two years. The latest period for which figures are available is 1 September 2007 to 2 April 2009. The following data show system repairs (including, although not exclusively pertaining to, boiler repairs) in Bexleyheath and Crayford and England respectively:

*Bexleyheath and Crayford*
	Number
1 Visit	262
2 Visits	65
3 Visits	32
>4 Visits	9
Total properties covered	1,323
Total Properties Visited	368

*England*
	Number
1 Visit	66,890
2 Visits	20,617
3 Visits	6,353
>4 Visits	3,027
Total properties covered	377,256
Total Properties Visited	96,887

Volume 491: debated on Monday 20 April 2009