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| Table 2a : Number of working and workless owner-occu pied households with less than 4 0 per cent. of contempor ary median household income before housing costs, by region or country, three year averages, 2003-04 to 2005-06 |
| m illion |
| Region/country | Working owner-occupied households | Workless owner-occupied households | All owner-occupied households |
|
UK
|
0.4
|
0.5
|
0.9
|
| Table 2b : Number of working and workless owner-occu pied households with less than 4 0 per cent. of contempor ary median household income after housing costs, by region or country, three year averages, 2003-04 to 2005-06 |
| Million |
| Region/country | Working owner-occupied households | Workless owner-occupied households | All owner-occupied households |
|
UK
|
0.5
|
0.4
|
1.0
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Notes:
1. Averages based on three survey years are given, because the sample sizes for individual regions for single years are too small to produce robust annual estimates.
2. The income measures used to derive the estimates shown employ the same methodology as the Department for Work and Pensions publication “Households Below Average Income” (HBAI) series, which uses disposable household income, adjusted (or ‘equivalised’) for household size and composition, as an income measure as a proxy for standard of living.
3. Income includes housing benefit, where applicable. Housing costs include rents, where applicable. This definition is standard international best practice.
4. The figures are based on OECD equivalisation factors.
5. The national median income of the survey year in question has been used (i.e. the 2003-04 median income is the basis of the results for the 2003-04 survey year) instead of using a fixed median for a particular year. This is consistent with the preferred way of measuring poverty.
6. Owner-occupied households are defined as households that are either owned outright or are being bought with a mortgage.
7. A household is defined as workless if no one within the household is classified as working. So ‘workless’ embraces all the ‘not working’ categories: unemployed, retired, student, looking after family/home, permanently sick/disabled, temporarily sick/injured and other inactive. DWP prefer to answer this PQ in a manner consistent with their publications. In any case, if they had limited the analysis to just ‘unemployed’, the sample size would have been too small to produce anything robust or meaningful.
8. Within households, pensioners are excluded from the classifications if they are not working, and are included if they are working. For example, a household with a pensioner in work, but a working age person not in work, would be in the working households category. This is consistent with the definition of the economic status of the household used in the “Households Below Average Income” publication.
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9. Figures are given in million, rounded to the nearest 100,000 households. Some figures may not sum due to rounding.
10. This response includes a lower income threshold of 40 per cent. of the contemporary median income. The data for families with an income lower than 50 per cent. of median is not considered to be accurate as an indicator of living standards. Many of these households while having very low incomes would not be considered poor, but who do genuinely have few sources of income in the short-run. These figures are not National Statistics and caution must be applied because those people stating the lowest incomes in the FRS may not actually have the lowest living standards.
Source:
Family Resources Survey 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06.
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Housing: Prices
Danny Alexander:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average (a) price and (b) rental costs of housing was in each year since 1990, broken down by (i) size, (ii) type and (iii) region. [196761]
Mr. Iain Wright:
I have been asked to reply.
A range of tables showing recent trends in property prices and rents are set out as follows. Property price information is provided for the whole of the UK but rental information from the Survey of English Housing is available for England only.
Property price data goes back to 1990, as requested but rental information is only available for later years.
| Table 1: Average property price by Government office region, England, 1990-2007 |
| £ |
| | North East | North West | Yorkshire and Humber | East Midlands | West Midlands | East | London | South East | South West |
|
1990
|
41,374
|
50,361
|
47,231
|
52,620
|
54,694
|
71,671
|
83,821
|
81,638
|
65,378
|
|
1991
|
45,395
|
52,951
|
52,343
|
55,740
|
58,659
|
69,865
|
85,742
|
80,696
|
65,346
|
|
1992
|
47,485
|
56,488
|
52,291
|
54,551
|
57,881
|
65,198
|
78,049
|
76,528
|
61,654
|
|
1993
|
48,725
|
55,641
|
54,572
|
53,797
|
58,508
|
66,756
|
81,332
|
77,239
|
61,319
|
|
1994
|
48,893
|
57,242
|
54,352
|
55,119
|
59,089
|
69,431
|
87,631
|
82,513
|
64,847
|
|
1995
|
46,565
|
56,231
|
54,356
|
55,060
|
62,123
|
70,036
|
89,528
|
83,030
|
65,096
|
|
1996
|
51,009
|
57,609
|
55,867
|
58,855
|
64,320
|
73,403
|
94,065
|
87,644
|
68,034
|
|
1997
|
52,824
|
63,077
|
60,019
|
61,930
|
67,803
|
81,378
|
105,819
|
94,842
|
73,004
|
|
1998
|
55,957
|
65,666
|
62,214
|
66,155
|
71,864
|
88,682
|
114,783
|
106,378
|
80,203
|
|
1999
|
61,620
|
72,017
|
67,416
|
72,437
|
79,757
|
96,841
|
142,321
|
121,654
|
89,217
|
|
2000
|
63,921
|
77,913
|
72,176
|
79,323
|
88,431
|
111,813
|
163,577
|
142,790
|
104,233
|
|
2001
|
69,813
|
82,402
|
76,368
|
87,280
|
97,650
|
127,858
|
182,325
|
156,964
|
118,639
|
|
2002
|
78,971
|
92,074
|
88,126
|
104,835
|
112,313
|
151,330
|
207,246
|
180,243
|
142,403
|
|
2003
|
100,344
|
115,003
|
114,253
|
132,013
|
137,371
|
183,234
|
241,864
|
214,971
|
174,482
|
|
2004
|
126,611
|
139,095
|
137,317
|
154,493
|
161,846
|
202,985
|
272,886
|
237,000
|
197,926
|
|
2005
|
135,210
|
149,440
|
148,014
|
161,487
|
168,904
|
211,661
|
282,548
|
243,537
|
204,686
|
|
2006
|
141,125
|
157,506
|
158,247
|
164,336
|
177,182
|
221,125
|
305,544
|
256,889
|
213,586
|
|
2007
|
152,295
|
170,072
|
170,203
|
176,255
|
185,048
|
238,147
|
342,122
|
278,054
|
230,885
|
| Table 2: Average property price by country, 1990-2007 |
| £ |
| | United Kingdom | England | Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland |
|
1990
|
59,785
|
63,173
|
46,464
|
41,744
|
31,849
|
|
1991
|
62,455
|
65,299
|
48,989
|
48,772
|
35,392
|
|
1992
|
61,366
|
63,692
|
49,551
|
50,010
|
38,287
|
|
1993
|
62,333
|
64,572
|
52,465
|
49,568
|
38,880
|
|
1994
|
64,787
|
67,518
|
53,106
|
50,651
|
38,651
|
|
1995
|
65,644
|
68,066
|
52,978
|
53,143
|
42,810
|
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|
1996
|
70,626
|
72,210
|
54,898
|
56,674
|
47,678
|
|
1997
|
76,103
|
78,831
|
58,372
|
57,883
|
53,309
|
|
1998
|
81,774
|
84,695
|
60,902
|
63,585
|
59,376
|
|
1999
|
92,521
|
96,133
|
67,483
|
69,312
|
66,267
|
|
2000
|
101,550
|
106,998
|
72,285
|
69,961
|
72,514
|
|
2001
|
112,835
|
119,563
|
79,628
|
73,570
|
79,885
|
|
2002
|
128,265
|
137,278
|
88,261
|
77,655
|
83,829
|
|
2003
|
155,627
|
166,820
|
109,661
|
103,641
|
95,217
|
|
2004
|
180,248
|
192,002
|
138,141
|
118,932
|
110,188
|
|
2005
|
190,760
|
202,409
|
149,979
|
129,631
|
129,229
|
|
2006
|
204,813
|
214,045
|
157,457
|
137,192
|
169,259
|
|
2007
|
223,405
|
232,054
|
169,848
|
158,798
|
229,701
|
Source:
Regulated Mortgage Survey
CLG Live table 503: http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/xls/140951
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