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To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Andrews on 2 March (WA 121–22), how many new homes were built in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007; how many in the Eastern region; and how many in each county in the Eastern region. [HL2069]
The table below shows the number of house building completions in the East of England broken down by county and unitary authority in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 calendar years.
2005 2006 2007 East of England region 20,110 21,610 22,830 Luton Borough Council UA 237 238 292 Peterborough City Council UA 714 1,281 936 Southend-on-Sea Council UA 415 226 284 Thurrock Council UA 827 602 246 Bedfordshire County Council 1,597 incomplete data 2,100 Cambridgeshire County Council incomplete data incomplete data incomplete data Essex County Council incomplete data 4,857 5,323 Hertfordshire County Council incomplete data incomplete data incomplete data Norfolk County Council 3,146 3,059 3,610 Suffolk County Council 2,919 incomplete data incomplete data
Source: Local authority P2 quarterly house building and National House-Building Council returns submitted to CLG.
The regional and national totals include imputation for missing local authority returns. The county and unitary authority figures are as reported by local authorities and the National House-Building Council; no figure is given where a county or unitary authority has one or more missing (local authority) quarterly returns as the full level of house building activity in the local area is not known.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what were their targets for the total number of new homes in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008. [HL2070]
Detailed housing targets are not directly set by government, but are set out in regional and local plans which are developed through regional and local planning processes. The Government set the overall strategy for housing supply in England. The housing Green Paper, Homes for the Future: More Affordable, More Sustainable (CM 7191), published in July 2007, set out a target to increase housing supply to 240,000 additional homes per annum by 2016.