Housing: Construction Bob Spink To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many housing starts for housing of each type of tenure there were in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in the latest period for which figures are available. Mr. Ian Austin The following table shows the number of new house building starts in Essex county and Castle Point in the December quarter of 2009. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Essex|Castle Point| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Private enterprise |898 |34 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Registered social landlords |72 |0 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Local authority |0 |0 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total |970 |34 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Source:New build starts from P2 quarterly returns submitted by local authorities and the National House-Building Council to CLG.| | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------