To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the written ministerial statement of 30 June 2009, Official Report, columns 7-10WS, on housing, what the (a) housing debt and (b) servicing costs were in each of the 202 local authorities referred to in each of the last three years; and when he expects to conclude his review of council housing finance and the future of local council housing. (313118)

I have arranged for a table showing the level of notional housing debt, and associated assumed interest costs, for each local authority with housing stock for each of the three years 2007-08 to 2009-10, to be placed in the Library.

On 16 December 2009, I announced that the responses to the consultation on proposals for the reform of council housing finance showed overwhelming support for the principle of self-financing. I intend to make a further announcement in February which will confirm the progress we have made on self-financing and set out more details of the proposals. I also intend to publish a summary of responses to the consultation in due course.