Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of (a) single occupancy households, (b) two person households and (c) three person households housed in social sector homes with (i) one, (ii) two, (iii) three and (iv) four or more bedrooms in the latest period for which figures are available. (282051)

The requested estimates are provided in the following table. These estimates are based on data from the 2007-08 Survey of English Housing.

*Number of people in social sector households by number of bedrooms, England, 2007-08*
	Number of bedrooms
	1	2	3	4 or more	Total
Number of people in household
1	962	443	231	15	1,651
2	188	473	386	15	1,062
3	19	223	288	16	546
4 or more	8	159	449	90	705
All	1,178	1,297	1,354	135	3,964
Source: Communities and Local Government, Survey of English Housing

Volume 494: debated on Wednesday 24 June 2009