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Housing: Standards

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 2 March 2010

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Bob Spink

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of properties in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point which (i) have been improved under the Decent Homes programme in each year of that programme and (ii) do not meet the Decent Homes standard. (318086)

Mr. Ian Austin

The only information we hold on all the stock is the annual number of non-decents. These are set out in the table.

Non-decent dwelling estimates—Essex 2001-09

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Castle Point

n/a

n/a

n/a

227

185

251

178

163

151

Essex

n/a

n/a

n/a

19,266

18,070

16,183

15,015

8,354

10,217

n/a = not available

Source:

Annual returns to Communities and Local Government