Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many housing starts for housing of each type of tenure there were in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in the latest period for which figures are available. (318085)

The following table shows the number of new house building starts in Essex county and Castle Point in the December quarter of 2009.

*Local authority*
	Essex	Castle Point
Private enterprise	898	34
Registered social landlords	72	0
Local authority	0	0
Total	970	34
Source: New build starts from P2 quarterly returns submitted by local authorities and the National House-Building Council to CLG.

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 2 March 2010