To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes are recorded on the National Register of Social Housing; what proportion of (a) council housing and (b) housing association housing is on the register; and what targets the Tenant Services Authority has to increase the quantity of data held on the register. (319299)

The total number of dwellings recorded on the National Register of Social Housing (NROSH) is 4.2 million.

The proportion of council (local authority) housing recorded on NROSH is 95 per cent. The proportion of housing association (registered social landlord) housing recorded on NROSH is 96 per cent.

The Tenants Services Authority's target, inherited from the Housing Corporation, is for all NROSH priority data fields to be populated by 31 March 2010.