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The following table shows the number of new social rented homes built in Dacorum local authority and Hertfordshire in each of the last five years.

	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Dacorum	110	0	10	50	100
Hertfordshire	760	550	530	890	620
Source: Homes and Communities Agency investment Management System (IMS), and local authority returns to CLG. Figures have been rounded to nearest 10 units.

Not all social rented and affordable housing is provided by new build completions, as some supply can come from acquisitions. For example, in 2007-08, a total of 210 additional affordable homes were provided in Dacorum (new build and acquisitions), and 1,310 additional affordable homes were provided in Hertfordshire (new build and acquisitions).

Housing: Low Incomes

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 135W, on housing: low incomes, what the average amount of
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grant paid for (a) intermediate affordable housing and (b) housing for social rent in each region was in each of the last five years. [282584]

Mr. Ian Austin: The average amount of grant per unit paid through the Homes and Communities Agency's Affordable Housing programme by region for social rent and intermediate affordable housing in each year 2005-06 to 2008-09 is as follows:

Social rent-average grant per unit
	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
East Midlands	37,879	38,792	38,736	39,939
East of England	41,623	35,108	29,376	42,328
London	80,979	83,821	94,957	97,715
North East	53,301	45,189	59,354	46,067
North West	58,916	51,159	50,277	53,179
South East	52,325	55,190	49,973	53,444
South West	40,992	33,376	42,304	40,004
West Midlands	52,615	43,245	43,381	46,260
York and Humber	38,495	45,667	41,176	44,711
National	55,353	55,796	57,289	57,306

Intermediate housing-average grant per unit
	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
East Midlands	18,846	17,626	16,417	19,006
East of England	27,631	19,427	13,849	26,369
London	46,187	41,951	41,421	44,749
North East	10,097	20,650	18,240	22,590
North West	27,996	26,921	24,937	28,226
South East	27,644	24,084	19,999	25,414
South West	18,255	15,001	16,041	21,463
West Midlands	23,095	20,228	15,556	23,581
York and Humber	15,347	17,817	21,051	27,830
National	31,795	28,927	25,524	30,313
Source: Homes and Communities Agency

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many of the 20,000 additional energy efficient affordable homes referred to on page 38 of the Building Britain's Future publication are planned to be for (a) social rent and (b) low cost home ownership. [283618]

Mr. Ian Austin: The Government estimate that around 13,250 of the 20,000 additional energy-efficient affordable homes will referred to in Building Britain's Future will be for social rent, and around 6,750 for low cost home ownership.

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Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many properties had been sold under the HomeBuy Direct Scheme in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point at the latest date for which figures are available. [285478]

John Healey: Provisional figures for the end of June 2009 show there were over 20 HomeBuy Direct sales completed in the Eastern region. We do not currently have statistically valid data for Essex or Castle Point.

Housing: Overcrowding

Ms Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of families living in overcrowded conditions in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [287387]

Mr. Ian Austin: The latest estimate of the number of overcrowded households in England was published in January 2009 as part of the Survey of English Housing Preliminary Report: 2007-08 and is 565,000. This is based on the average of three years of the Survey of English Housing from 2005-06 to 2007-08. Overcrowding is defined according to the bedroom standard.

Housing: Single People

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people were living in single person dwellings in each region in each of the last 30 years. [285691]

Mr. Ian Austin: The particular data requested have not previously been published, but data on household size by tenure are published in the annual Survey of English Housing reports. The most recent data can be found in table 3 of the Survey of English Housing Preliminary Report 2007-08, available at:

www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/pdf/1133551.pdf

The following table provides estimates of the number of one-person households in each region for 1999 to 2008 inclusive. Estimates by region for the years previous to this could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The overall number of one-person households in England in 1981 was 3,823,000 and in 1991 it was 5,039,000. The estimates are based on data from the ONS Labour Force Survey.

Number of one person households, England
T housands of households
Region	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
North East	309	318	332	340	339	351	337	350	340	362
North West	784	779	784	829	778	814	824	811	873	876
Yorks and Humberside	600	610	618	636	642	646	628	632	669	688
East Midlands	439	464	447	464	482	505	467	506	536	525
West Midlands	573	583	562	618	604	585	586	586	611	631
Eastern	584	609	619	617	593	605	625	653	631	665
London	878	896	899	902	922	889	876	878	837	859
South East	883	864	881	933	976	941	996	972	942	937
South West	568	577	596	613	616	596	594	622	633	610
Total	5,619	5,701	5,737	5,953	5,953	5,931	5,931	6,009	6,073	6,154
Source: ONS Labour Force Survey.

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