Social Rented Housing: Standards Julia Goldsworthy To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number of homes in the social housing sector which do not meet the Decent Homes standard in each region in England. Mr. Iain Wright The information requested is provided in the table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Region |RSL homes which fail DHS|LA homes which fail DHS|Total | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |East Midlands |10,850 |42,456 |53,306 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |East of England |26,085 |27,896 |53,981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |London |35,357 |140,138 |175,495| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North East |16,094 |55,579 |71,673 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North West |58,053 |36,072 |94,125 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South East |18,422 |39,856 |58,278 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South West |16,872 |24,315 |41,187 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |West Midlands |11,639 |50,799 |62,438 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Yorkshire and the Humber |31,195 |72,334 |103,529| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Total |224,567 |489,445 |714,012| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Sources:1. Registered social landlord data from the Regulatory Statistical Return Part Q4 (long) Part Q6 (short).2. Local authority data from the Business Plan Statistical Appendix.| | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Since 2007 the number of non-decent homes in local authority stock has reduced from 618,000 and from 254,000 in the RSL sector. The overall reduction in the percentage of non-decent homes in the social sector since 2007 is from 21.8 per cent. to 18.0 per cent. in 2008.