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Repossession Orders: Coventry

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many home repossessions there were in Coventry in the last quarter for which information is available. [291521]

Mr. Ian Austin: There are two independent sources of data on actual numbers of mortgage possessions: the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) and the Financial Services Authority (FSA). However, both are only available for the United Kingdom as a whole.

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The Council of Mortgage Lenders latest press release on repossessions is on their website at:

http://www.cml.org.uk/cml/media/press/2357

The Financial Services Authority data is available on their website at:

http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Doing/Regulated/Returns/IRR/statistics/

Retail Trade: Worksop

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on how many occasions and for what reasons the District Auditor has corresponded with Bassetlaw council concerning the Turner Road development in Worksop in the last 12 months. [292387]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The District Auditor has written to Bassetlaw district council about the Turner Road development on one occasion in the last 12 months. This followed an approach by Bassetlaw district council to request his views on the development project.

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what delays in the Turner Road development site in Worksop have resulted from District Auditor interventions in the last 12 months. [292388]

Ms Rosie Winterton: I am not aware of any delay in the Turner Road development resulting from District Auditor intervention.

Shared Ownership Schemes

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many shared ownership purchases have been made in (a) Hemel Hempstead constituency, (b) Dacorum, (c) Hertfordshire and (d) England by people on social housing waiting lists in each year since 2000; and what proportion of all such sales in each of those areas this represented in each such year. [289407]

Mr. Ian Austin: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 13 July 2009, Official Report, column 134W.

Sleeping Rough: Hertfordshire

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of rough sleepers in (a) Hemel Hempstead constituency, (b) Dacorum and (c) Hertfordshire in each year since 1990. [290461]

Mr. Ian Austin: Annual rough sleeping figures have been collected since 1998. The figures are based on local authority street counts and until 2008, estimates where a street count did not take place.

Number of rough sleepers
	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Hemel Hempstead	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Dacorum	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Hertfordshire	30	27	11	4	1	0	5	0	5	2	5	5

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Sleeping Rough: North West

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of rough sleepers in each local authority area in the North-West in each year since 1990; and what methodology his Department uses to calculate such estimates. [289277]

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Mr. Ian Austin: Annual rough sleeping figures have been collected since 1998. The figures are based on local authority street counts and until 2008 estimates where a street count did not take place. Local authorities evaluate the extent of rough sleeping within their area in accordance with the methodology on street counts set out in CLG's "Guidance on evaluating the extent of rough sleeping-2007 revision".

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Number of rough sleepers in the north west:
	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Cheshire
Cheshire East (Congleton, Crewe and Nantwich and Macclesfield)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
Cheshire West and Chester (Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston and Vale Royal)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9
Congleton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a
Crewe and Nantwich	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	n/a
Macclesfield	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	2	n/a
Chester	21	26	16	3	1	1	1	1	6	6	9	n/a
Ellesmere Port and Neston	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	n/a
Vale Royal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a
Halton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Warrington	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Cumbria
Allerdale	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Copeland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Barrow in Furness	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	-
Carlisle	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	-
Eden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
South Lakeland	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	-
Greater Manchester
Bolton	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Bury	12	6	3	3	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	-
Manchester	31	44	23	17	19	9	18	7	5	7	11	9
Oldham	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Rochdale	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Salford	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Stockport	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	1	-
Tameside	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Trafford	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Wigan	11	2	2	0	0	0	8	2	2	0	0	-
Lancashire
Blackburn with Darwen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Blackpool	15	12	0	4	4	0	4	4	0	0	7	-
Burnley	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	-
Chorley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Fylde	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Hyndburn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Lancaster	21	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Pendle	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Preston	0	0	2	0	3	0	14	3	3	0	8	-
Ribble Valley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Rossendale	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
South Ribble	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
West Lancashire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Wyre	6	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Merseyside
Knowsley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Liverpool	17	30	19	13	19	19	10	8	9	12	13	9
Sefton	21	21	17	5	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	-
St Helens	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	-
Wirral	0	0	3	0	0	2	2	0	3	3	0	-
Total	181	194	108	47	49	37	64	35	36	33	54	32

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