Margaret Moran:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many empty dwellings management orders have been enforced in each local authority area to date. [267144]
Mr. Iain Wright:
To date, 22 Interim Empty Dwelling Management Orders (EDMOs) have been approved by the Residential Property Tribunal Service (RPTS) since the legislation came into effect in April 2006. However, local authorities claim that in many cases the threat of an EDMO has been sufficient to make owners take action to bring long-term empty homes back into use.
We are confident that the legislation is beginning to work well. We always intended that the legislation should be used only as a last resort where other measures have proved unsuccessful. We want to encourage voluntary re-occupation of empty homes but this can only work well where there is realistic compulsion to back them up. EDMOs provide this compulsion and should therefore be a key component of a comprehensive empty property strategy.
Local authority
Number of i nterim EDMOs authorised
London Borough of Bromley
1
Carlisle District Council
1
London Borough of Hammersmith And Fulham
1
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London Borough of Hounslow
2
London Borough of Lewisham
5
New Forest District Council
1
Norwich City Council
5
Peterborough City Council
2
South Norfolk District Council
1
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council
1
Swale Borough Council
1
Wychavon District Council
1
Total
22
Equity
Grant Shapps:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what her Department’s net spending on equity loan schemes in each region was in each of the last three years; [265071]
(2) what her Department’s net spending on shared ownership schemes was in each region in each of the last three years. [265072]
Mr. Iain Wright:
The following table shows spend through the housing corporation on shared equity and shared ownership over the previous three years by region.
Shared Equity spend by region
£ million
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
North East
0.10
0.00
0.32
North West
5.79
1.84
3.92
Yorkshire and Humberside
1.58
0.94
2.28
East Midlands
8.36
1.33
1.65
West Midlands
16.81
3.60
2.98
Eastern
38.69
8.61
12.65
London
164.09
44.63
21.72
South East
69.89
27.55
29.01
South West
8.51
2.78
9.01
Shared Ownership spend by region
£ m illion
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
North East
1.83
3.13
2.23
North West
18.37
18.38
16.85
Yorkshire and Humberside
3.87
9.54
11.03
East Midlands
14.01
16.76
20.85
West Midlands
10.01
16.97
20.35
Eastern
13.48
18.50
24.44
London
116.19
167.03
141.24
South East
40.42
56.42
59.00
South West
10.63
13.95
20.96
Fire Services
Mr. Dismore:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many road traffic accidents the Fire and Rescue Service attended in each (a) fire authority area and (b) region in each of the last three years. [266398]
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Mr. Khan:
The number of road traffic incidents attended by each Fire and Rescue Service for the last years are shown in the table:
Road traffic incidents attended by Fire and Rescue Services, England, 2005-06 to 2007-08
FRS area
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
England( 1)
42,308
40,707
38,867
North East
1,725
1,667
1,815
Cleveland
500
468
453
County Durham and Darlington
440
451
451
Northumberland
282
260
307
Tyne and Wear
503
488
604
North West
4,537
3,891
3,418
Cheshire
885
721
490
Cumbria
394
360
339
Greater Manchester
1,247
1,092
992
Lancashire
923
816
837
Merseyside
1,088
902
760
Yorkshire and the Humber
3,718
3,660
3,527
Humberside
701
694
653
North Yorkshire
688
705
709
South Yorkshire
1,156
1,152
1,072
West Yorkshire
1,173
1,109
1,093
East Midlands
3,742
3,873
3,846
Derbyshire
717
787
778
Leicestershire
928
961
992
Lincolnshire
692
725
723
Northamptonshire
662
647
637
Nottinghamshire
743
753
716
West Midlands
5,118
4,886
4,923
Hereford and Worcester
745
747
810
Shropshire
357
336
344
Staffordshire
977
970
977
Warwickshire
631
613
609
West Midlands
2,408
2,220
2,183
East of England
5,555
5,584
5,464
Bedfordshire and Luton
476
439
482
Cambridgeshire
897
762
779
Essex
1,634
1,617
1,721
Hertfordshire
607
556
682
Norfolk
1,436
1,671
1,350
Suffolk
505
539
450
London
5,501
5,318
5,238
South East( 1)
7,451
7,101
5,935
Buckinghamshire
627
605
620
East Sussex
738
731
727
Hampshire(1)
1,447
1,370
(2)—
Isle of Wight
126
100
109
Kent
1,323
1,268
1,190
Oxfordshire
436
458
455
Royal Berkshire
638
660
611
Surrey
1,197
997
1,285
West Sussex
919
912
938
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South West
4,961
4,727
4,701
Avon
832
761
714
Cornwall
591
519
483
Devon(3)
1,140
1,126
—
Devon and Somerset(3)
—
—
1,645
Dorset
547
588
619
Gloucestershire
606
544
572
Somerset(3)
610
499
—
Wiltshire
635
690
668
(1) Data for 2007-08 not provided by Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service (2) NP (3) Prior to 2007-08 Devon and Somerset existed as separate Fire and Rescue Services
