Housing: Single People Chris Ruane To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people were living in single person dwellings in each region in each of the last 30 years. Mr. Ian Austin The particular data requested have not previously been published, but data on household size by tenure are published in the annual Survey of English Housing reports. The most recent data can be found in table 3 of the Survey of English Housing Preliminary Report 2007-08, available at: www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/pdf/1133551.pdf The following table provides estimates of the number of one-person households in each region for 1999 to 2008 inclusive. Estimates by region for the years previous to this could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The overall number of one-person households in England in 1981 was 3,823,000 and in 1991 it was 5,039,000. The estimates are based on data from the ONS Labour Force Survey. --------------------------------- |Thousands of households | --------------------------------- |Region |1999|2000|2001|2002|2003|2004|2005|2006|2007|2008| --------------------------------- |North East |309|318|332|340|339|351|337|350|340|362| --------------------------------- |North West |784|779|784|829|778|814|824|811|873|876| --------------------------------- |Yorks and Humberside |600|610|618|636|642|646|628|632|669|688| --------------------------------- |East Midlands |439|464|447|464|482|505|467|506|536|525| --------------------------------- |West Midlands |573|583|562|618|604|585|586|586|611|631| --------------------------------- |Eastern |584|609|619|617|593|605|625|653|631|665| --------------------------------- |London |878|896|899|902|922|889|876|878|837|859| --------------------------------- |South East |883|864|881|933|976|941|996|972|942|937| --------------------------------- |South West |568|577|596|613|616|596|594|622|633|610| --------------------------------- |Total |5,619|5,701|5,737|5,953|5,953|5,931|5,931|6,009|6,073|6,154| --------------------------------- |Source:ONS Labour Force Survey.||||||||||| ---------------------------------