Mrs. Spelman:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) of 2 February 2009, Official Report, columns 915-16W, on housing: sales, how many domestic property transactions there were according to Land Registry data in each local authority in England and Wales in the full calendar year of 2008. [270131]
Mr. Wills:
The information requested is contained in the following table.
Land Registry: Average price and volume of sales by district annual 2008( 1)
District name
Total sales
Adur
752
Allerdale
1,013
Alnwick
446
Amber Valley
1,532
Arun
2,244
Ashfield
1,448
Ashford
1,449
Aylesbury Vale
2,127
Babergh
1,079
Barking and Dagenham
1,705
Barnet
3,445
Barnsley
3,143
Barrow-in-Furness
938
Basildon
1,775
Basingstoke and Deane
2,445
Bassetlaw
1,335
Bath and North East Somerset
1,887
Bedford
1,825
Berwick-upon-Tweed
367
Bexley
2,485
Birmingham
10,683
Blaby
990
Blackburn with Darwen
1,570
Blackpool
1,914
Blaenau Gwent
562
Blyth Valley
892
Bolsover
850
Bolton
3,122
Boston
873
Bournemouth
3,091
Bracknell Forest
1,634
Bradford
6,169
Braintree
1,703
Breckland
1,530
Brent
2,096
Brentwood
912
Bridgend
1,583
Bridgnorth
522
Brighton and Hove
3,434
Broadland
1,445
Bromley
3,764
Bromsgrove
920
Broxbourne
1,119
Broxtowe
1,247
Burnley
1,282
Bury
2,039
Caerphilly
1,690
Calderdale
2,732
24 Apr 2009 : Column 964W
Cambridge
1,382
Camden
2,077
Cannock Chase
957
Canterbury
2,015
Caradon
998
Cardiff
4,127
Carlisle
1,288
Carmarthenshire
1,751
Carrick
1,232
Castle Morpeth
602
Castle Point
968
Ceredigion
633
Charnwood
2,024
Chelmsford
2,009
Cheltenham
1,647
Cherwell
1,593
Chester
1,236
Chesterfield
1,028
Chester-le-Street
622
Chichester
1,458
Chiltern
947
Chorley
1,208
Christchurch
667
City of Bristol
5,612
City of Derby
2,974
City of Kingston Upon Hull
3,310
City of London
145
City of Nottingham
3,109
City of Peterborough
2,287
City of Plymouth
3,106
City of Westminster
2,776
Colchester
2,562
Congleton
997
Conwy
1,409
Copeland
848
Corby
1,010
Cotswold
1,025
Coventry
3,495
Craven
730
Crawley
1,345
Crewe and Nantwich
1,482
Croydon
3,843
Dacorum
1,646
Darlington
1,488
Dartford
1,369
Daventry
961
Denbighshire
1,046
Derbyshire Dales
758
Derwentside
1,300
Doncaster
3,312
Dover
1,228
Dudley
3,051
Durham
1,090
Ealing
2,748
Easington
1,330
Eastbourne
1,498
East Cambridgeshire
1,130
East Devon
1,879
East Dorset
993
East Hampshire
1,366
East Hertfordshire
1,656
24 Apr 2009 : Column 965W
Eastleigh
1,670
East Lindsey
1,741
East Northamptonshire
1,193
East Riding of Yorkshire
4,265
East Staffordshire
1,338
Eden
567
Ellesmere Port and Neston
768
Elmbridge
1,801
Enfield
3,102
Epping Forest
1,410
Epsom and Ewell
872
Erewash
1,428
Exeter
1,377
Fareham
1,418
Fenland
1,307
Flintshire
1,298
Forest Heath
881
Forest of Dean
881
Fylde
1,080
Gateshead
2,095
Gedling
1,360
Gloucester
1,581
Gosport
1,082
Gravesham
1,141
Great Yarmouth
1,130
Greenwich
2,388
Guildford
1,640
Gwynedd
1,162
Hackney
1,713
Halton
1,290
Hambleton
959
Hammersmith and Fulham
1,692
Harborough
1,084
Haringey
2,012
Harlow
924
Harrogate
1,838
Harrow
2,157
Hart
1,209
Hartlepool
1,116
Hastings
1,362
Havant
1,286
Havering
2,615
Herefordshire
1,851
Hertsmere
1,101
High Peak
931
Hillingdon
3,023
Hinckley and Bosworth
1,278
Horsham
1,650
Hounslow
2,286
Huntingdonshire
2,110
Hyndburn
1,077
Ipswich
1,671
Isle of Anglesey
687
Isle of Wight
2,146
Islington
2,262
Kennet
971
Kensington and Chelsea
1,765
Kerrier
1,134
Kettering
1,327
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
1,861
Kingston upon Thames
1,688
24 Apr 2009 : Column 966W
Kirklees
4,897
Knowsley
1,199
Lambeth
2,985
Lancaster
1,745
Leeds
8,596
Leicester
2,788
Lewes
1,276
Lewisham
2,596
Lichfield
1,084
Lincoln
1,401
Liverpool
5,306
Luton
2,066
Macclesfield
1,772
Maidstone
2,008
Maldon
711
Malvern Hills
748
Manchester
5,895
Mansfield
1,348
Medway
3,245
Melton
605
Mendip
1,322
Merthyr Tydfil
569
Merton
2,213
Mid Bedfordshire
1,614
Mid Devon
979
Middlesbrough
1,646
Mid Suffolk
1,231
Mid Sussex
1,689
Milton Keynes
3,924
Mole Valley
966
Monmouthshire
820
Neath Port Talbot
1,324
Newark and Sherwood
1,457
Newcastle-under-Lyme
1,221
Newcastle upon Tyne
2,948
New Forest
2,270
Newham
2,661
Newport
1,475
Northampton
3,004
North Cornwall
1,171
North Devon
1,108
North Dorset
779
North East Derbyshire
909
North East Lincolnshire
2,222
North Hertfordshire
1,500
North Kesteven
1,534
North Lincolnshire
1,851
North Norfolk
1,470
North Shropshire
611
North Somerset
2,613
North Tyneside
2,467
North Warwickshire
628
North West Leicestershire
1,080
North Wiltshire
1,650
Norwich
1,698
Nuneaton and Bedworth
1,322
Oadby and Wigston
521
Oldham
2,513
Oswestry
409
Oxford
1,431
Pembrokeshire
1,323
24 Apr 2009 : Column 967W
Pendle
1,211
Penwith
775
Poole
2,085
Portsmouth
2,578
Powys
1,219
Preston
1,565
Purbeck
548
Reading
2,083
Redbridge
2,991
Redcar and Cleveland
1,540
Redditch
864
Reigate and Banstead
1,989
Restormel
1,292
Rhondda Cynon Taff
2,527
Ribble Valley
626
Richmondshire
512
Richmond upon Thames
2,406
Rochdale
2,081
Rochford
977
Rossendale
853
Rother
1,324
Rotherham
2,572
Rugby
1,320
Runnymede
1,035
Rushcliffe
1,287
Rushmoor
1,327
Rutland
447
Ryedale
575
Salford
3,018
Salisbury
1,379
Sandwell
3,086
Scarborough
1,676
Sedgefield
1,050
Sedgemoor
1,480
Sefton
2,467
Selby
1,017
Sevenoaks
1,197
Sheffield
6,345
Shepway
1,450
Shrewsbury and Atcham
921
Slough
1,492
Solihull
2,376
Southampton
2,947
South Bedfordshire
1,384
South Bucks
823
South Cambridgeshire
1,731
South Derbyshire
1,288
Southend-on-Sea
2,432
South Gloucestershire
2,909
South Hams
1,122
South Holland
1,134
South Kesteven
1,827
South Lakeland
1,420
South Norfolk
1,736
South Northamptonshire
1,032
South Oxfordshire
1,477
South Ribble
1,267
South Shropshire
473
South Somerset
1,963
South Staffordshire
908
South Tyneside
1,538
24 Apr 2009 : Column 968W
Southwark
2,457
Spelthorne
1,124
Stafford
1,363
Staffordshire Moorlands
948
St. Albans
1,716
St. Edmundsbury
1,328
Stevenage
898
St. Helens
1,638
Stockport
3,147
Stockton-on-Tees
2,461
Stoke-on-Trent
3,056
Stratford-on-Avon
1,337
Stroud
1,480
Suffolk Coastal
1,659
Sunderland
2,756
Surrey Heath
1,165
Sutton
2,361
Swale
1,707
Swansea
2,798
Swindon
3,138
Tameside
2,670
Tamworth
834
Tandridge
1,089
Taunton Deane
1,256
Teesdale
260
Teignbridge
1,501
Tendring
1,923
Test Valley
1,203
Tewkesbury
1,014
Thanet
1,971
The Vale of Glamorgan
1,309
Three Rivers
1,039
Thurrock
1,682
Tonbridge and Malling
1,417
Torbay
1,878
Torfaen
841
Torridge
910
Tower Hamlets
2,466
Trafford
2,230
Tunbridge Wells
1,539
Tynedale
659
Uttlesford
1,082
Vale of White Horse
1,201
Vale Royal
1,360
Wakefield
3,525
Walsall
2,647
Waltham Forest
2,407
Wandsworth
3,961
Wansbeck
780
Warrington
2,436
Warwick
1,779
Watford
1,199
Waveney
1,436
Waverley
1,437
Wealden
1,703
Wear Valley
969
Wellingborough
952
Welwyn Hatfield
1,073
West Berkshire
1,916
West Devon
817
West Dorset
1,404
24 Apr 2009 : Column 969W
West Lancashire
934
West Lindsey
1,296
West Oxfordshire
1,397
West Somerset
444
West Wiltshire
1,785
Weymouth and Portland
831
Wigan
3,817
Winchester
1,402
Windsor and Maidenhead
1,625
Wirral
3,387
Woking
1,354
Wokingham
2,040
Wolverhampton
2,129
Worcester
1,310
Worthing
1,447
Wrekin
1,648
Wrexham
1,173
Wychavon
1,124
Wycombe
1,826
Wyre
1,299
Wyre Forest
914
York
2,280
Total sales
645,405
(1) Information relates to single residential properties sold for their full market value.
