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Social Rented Housing: Waiting Lists

Volume 508: debated on Thursday 8 April 2010

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Grant Shapps

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how many households with children were on the social housing waiting list in each of the last three years; and how many children there were in households on that waiting list in each of those years; (323838)

(2) how many households with at least one pregnant member were on the social housing waiting list in each of the last three years;

(3) what information his Department (a) holds and (b) collects from local authorities on (i) demographics and (ii) waiting times in respect of households on the social housing waiting list;

(4) how many households with at least one disabled person were on the social housing waiting list in each of the last three years.

Mr. Ian Austin

Information on waiting times and other characteristics of households on social housing waiting lists are not collected centrally.

The other information requested is available on the Department’s website.