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Repossession Orders

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many repossession orders there were in each of the last 12 quarters for which figures are available. (268579)

The latest quarterly figures on mortgage and landlord possession orders made in the county courts of England and Wales (from 2004 to 2008) are available on the Ministry of Justice website. Please see the tables on pages seven and nine of the following link:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/stats-mortgage-landlord-qu4-2008.pdf

These figures do not indicate how many homes have actually been repossessed. Repossessions can occur without a court order being made while not all court orders result in repossession.

The civil procedure rules state that all claims for the repossession of land must be commenced in the district in which the land is situated. However, geographical boundaries of county courts may not necessarily be consistent with other administrative or constituency boundaries.