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Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much she estimates will be provided in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10 (i) to write off overhanging housing debt for local authorities who privatise their housing stock and (ii) for council house repairs and renovations in those authorities. [264998]
Mr. Iain Wright: The Department expects to pay £515 million in overhanging debt (OHD) to the Public Works Loan Boards in respect of completed large scale voluntary transfers in 2008-09. We estimate that overhanging debt payments in 2009-10 may total up to £300 million.
For those authorities that transferred either all or part of their housing stock in 2008-09, the Department has allocated allowances for management, maintenance and major repairs of a value of £320 million.
It is too early to provide an accurate forecast of the expenditure allowances to be provided to stock transferring authorities for 2009-10.
Regional Planning and Development
Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what remuneration is given to each member of each of the Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships. [265064]
John Healey: The Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs) are devolved partnerships of councils and other local services. Information on remuneration packages for RIEPs members is not held centrally.
Rented Housing
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of rented homes in England were owned by (a) housing associations, (b) local authorities and (c) private landlords in each of the last five years. [265001]
Mr. Iain Wright: The following table shows the dwelling stock in England rented from registered social landlords, local authorities and private landlords as a proportion of the estimated total rented dwelling stock in each of the last five years for which data are available.
| Rented from registered social landlords (percentage) | Rented from local authorities (percentage) | Rented from private landlords (percentage) | Total rented dwellings (thousand) | |
| Sources: Census 2001; Housing Flows Reconciliation and joint returns by local authorities; Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix (HSSA) submitted to Communities and Local Government by local authorities; Regulatory Statistical Return (RSR) as reported to the Housing Corporation by registered social landlords; Labour Force Survey. | ||||
Rented Housing: Overcrowding
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of (a) households and (b) people in the (i) private and (ii) social rented sector living in overcrowded conditions in each of the last five years. [266320]
Mr. Iain Wright: Levels of overcrowding are measured through the Survey of English Housing and assessed against the “bedroom standard”. Estimates of the number and proportion of households living in overcrowded conditions in the private rented and social rented sectors in England are given in table 1. Corresponding estimates of the number and proportion of people in overcrowded conditions are given in table 2. A three year moving average is provided due to small sample sizes for these groups.
| Table 1: E stimated n umber of households in overcrowded conditions, England , 2003-04 to 2007-08, three year moving average( 1) | |||||
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
| (1)( )A three year moving average is used due to sample size issues. 2003-04 estimates are the average of 2001-02, 2002-03 and 2003-04. Source: Communities and local government, Survey for English Housing | |||||
| Table 2: E stimated number of people living in overcrowded conditions, England, 2003-04 to 2007-08, three year moving average( 1) | |||||
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
| (1) A three year moving average is used due to sample size issues. 2003-04 estimates are the average of 2001-02, 2002-03 and 2003-04. Source: Communities and local government, Survey for English Housing | |||||
Rented Housing: Regulation
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what responsibilities the Tenant Services Agency has in respect of regulation of public sector leaseholders. [265774]
Mr. Iain Wright: The Tenant Services Authority has no responsibilities in respect of leaseholders who own 100 per cent. of the interest in their homes. Leaseholders already have access to a wide range of protections and rights. The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 limits the Tenant Services Authority’s future regulatory remit to ‘social housing’, which includes low cost rental and low cost home ownership accommodation as defined in sections 69-70 of the Act (including some types of “shared ownership” agreement), but not other owner-occupied homes or the private rented sector. However the Tenant Services Authority is likely to be interested in how registered providers deliver management across their stock.
Repossession Orders
Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) sole owners, (b) joint owners and (c) first-time buyers have had their properties repossessed in (a) North West Cambridgeshire constituency, (b) Cambridgeshire, (c) the East of England and (d) England in each of the last five years; and how many of those were aged (i) 18 to 30, (ii) 31 to 40, (iii) 41 to 50, (iv) 51 to 60 and (v) over 60 years. [264758]
Mr. Iain Wright: The Department does not collect data on repossessions. Repossessions data at the UK level are available from the Council of Mortgage Lenders and Financial Services Authority. These data are not split out by sole owners and joint owners, first time buyers and non-first time buyers, or by region. Nor are they split out by different age groups.
The only sub-national figures relating to repossessions are for possession orders. Statistics on mortgage and landlord possession orders for the county courts are available via the Ministry of Justice website at:
Social Rented Housing: Standards
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 24 February 2009, Official Report, column 556W, on social rented housing: standards, how many homes each percentage figure in the table represents. [266503]
Mr. Iain Wright: The following table provides the information requested. This is drawn from the Business Plan Statistical Appendix—Annual Monitoring data from Local Authorities for 2007-08 published by CLG last month. The RSL data are from the Regulatory Statistical Return (RSR) for 2007-08 published by the Housing Corporation (now Tenant Services Authority) last autumn.
| Number of social houses meeting the decent homes standard | |||||
| Local authorities | RSLs | ||||
| 2007 | 2008 | 2010 | 2007 | 2008 | |
| (1)( )No current stock. (2)( )Housing transfer to new RSL November 2009. | |||||
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