To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of empty (a) residential and (b) commercial properties in the London borough of (i) Bexley, (ii) Bromley, (iii) Croydon and (iv) Greenwich in the last three years for which figures are available. (304995)

The number of empty domestic dwellings in the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon and Greenwich in 2007, 2008 and 2009 are shown in the following table. The data include both short-term and long-term empty dwellings.

The data are taken from the council tax base (CTB) and CTB (Supplementary) forms completed annually in October by all billing authorities in England and returned to Communities and Local Government.

Details of the number of empty non-domestic hereditaments are not currently available.