---

21 May 2009 : Column 1534W—continued

21 May 2009 : Column 1535W

21 May 2009 : Column 1536W

	East	London	South East	South West	England
Local authority
Number of vacants	2,500	9,850	3,080	1,850	40,960
Dwelling stock	188,000	451,000	193,000	120,000	1,987,000
LA vacants as a % of LA stock	1.3	2.2	1.6	1.5	2.1
LA vacants as a percentage of total vacants	3.6	11.6	3.0	2.8	5.4
Registered social landlords
Number of vacants	1,770	4,650	2,600	1,610	30,770
Dwelling stock	188,000	295,000	269,000	173,000	1,886,000
RSL vacants as a percentage of RSL stock	0.9	1.6	1.0	0.9	1.6
RSL vacants as a percentage of total vacants	2.6	5.5	2.6	2.4	4.0
Total
Number of vacants	69,110	84,630	101,810	66,920	763,320
Dwelling stock	2,438,000	3,220,000	3,571,000	2,317,000	22,189,000
LA vacants as a percentage of LA stock	2.8	2.6	2.9	2.9	3.4
Vacants as a percentage of total vacants	100	100	100	100	100

2008
	North East	North West	Yorkshire and the Humber	East Midlands	West Midlands
Local authority
Number of vacants	3,030	4,920	5,920	3,320	4,120
Dwelling stock(1)	139,643	180,586	242,854	193,889	213,159
LA vacants as a percentage of LA stock	2.2	2.7	2.4	1.7	1.9
LA vacants as a percentage of total vacants	6.0	3.6	5.8	4.3	5.2
Registered social landlords
Number of vacants	3,170	7,160	3,190	1,300	3,360
Dwelling stock(1)	133,773	402,384	178,000	116,231	235,290
RSL vacants as a percentage of RSL stock	2.4	1.8	1.8	1.1	1.4
RSL vacants as a percentage of total vacants	6.3	5.2	3.1	1.7	4.2
Total
Number of vacants	50,620	137,850	102,240	76,960	79,850
Dwelling stock(1)	1,167,480	3,111,257	2,278,877	1,923,438	2,334,315
LA vacants as a percentage of LA stock	4.3	4.4	4.5	4.0	3.4
Vacants as a percentage of total vacants	100	100	100	100	100

	East	London	South East	South West	England
Local authority
Number of vacants	2,110	9,500	2,630	1,400	36,940
Dwelling stock(1)	164,316	435,542	182,743	117,633	1,870,365
LA vacants as a percentage of LA stock	1.3	2.2	1.4	1.2	2.0
LA vacants as a percentage of total vacants	2.8	11.1	2.5	2.0	4.7
Registered social landlords
Number of vacants	1,860	4,930	2,570	1,720	29,240
Dwelling stock(1)	223,273	351,983	311,937	189,426	2,142,297
RSL vacants as a percentage of RSL stock	0.8	1.4	0.8	0.9	1.4
RSL vacants as a percentage of total vacants	2.5	5.7	2.4	2.4	3.7
Total
Number of vacants	75,200	85,920	105,110	70,270	784,020
Dwelling stock(1)	2,464,469	3,281,034	3,603,644	2,329,343	22,493,857
LA vacants as a percentage of LA stock	3.1	2.6	2.9	3.0	3.5
Vacants as a percentage of total vacants	100	100	100	100	100
(1 )Provisional. Source: Council Taxbase and Council Taxbase Supplementary (CTBl and CTBIS) returns from 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.

21 May 2009 : Column 1537W

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many vacant dwellings in each region were (a) local authority-owned, (b) registered social landlord-owned and (c) privately-owned in each of the last five years. [275577]

Mr. Iain Wright: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him today, Official Report, (PQs 273763 and 273896).

---