Housing: Overcrowding Sarah Teather To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number of families living in overcrowded conditions in each London borough in each of the last 10 years. Mr. Iain Wright The Survey of English Housing, using the bedroom standard, estimates the number of overcrowded households living in London over the last 10 years were: --------------------------------------------------------------- | |Overcrowded households1(Thousand)| --------------------------------------------------------------- |1997-98 |156 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |1998-99 |159 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |1999-2000 |161 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2000-01 |166 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2001-02 |170 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2002-03 |172 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2003-04 |175 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2004-05 |189 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2005-06 |203 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |203 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Three year moving average| | --------------------------------------------------------------- It is not possible to derive estimates at a local authority level.