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Table 2: Percentage of dwellings that are social housing within each London local authority, 2004-08
	Social housing dwellings as a percentage of total dwellings
London local authority	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Barking and Dagenham	33.7	33.3	32.5	32.2	32.2
Barnet	14.1	13.1	13.2	13.1	13.0
Bexley	13.4	14.0	12.6	13.2	13.4
Brent	22.7	22.7	22.2	23.9	23.8
Bromley	13.9	13.1	11.7	12.2	13.8
Camden	36.3	34.8	36.0	36.1	35.5
City of London	13.0	12.0	11.9	11.6	11.6
Croydon	16.8	16.7	16.7	16.9	16.9
Ealing	18.5	18.5	19.9	20.5	20.2
Enfield	16.3	16.0	15.6	15.8	15.8
Greenwich	37.3	35.9	34.8	35.1	34.5
Hackney	52.8	50.3	48.5	48.3	47.7
Hammersmith and Fulham	34.0	33.7	32.4	32.5	32.5
Haringey	28.5	28.3	29.8	30.7	27.9
Harrow	10.6	10.4	10.5	10.7	10.4
Havering	14.5	14.5	14.1	13.3	13.7
Hillingdon	16.8	16.7	16.6	16.5	16.6
Hounslow	22.7	22.4	21.7	21.4	22.0
Islington	46.8	45.6	44.3	42.8	41.3
Kensington and Chelsea	22.3	21.9	22.5	22.5	22.2
Kingston upon Thames	11.7	11.6	11.5	11.3	11.4
Lambeth	40.9	40.1	40.2	38.3	36.9
Lewisham	32.6	31.1	30.8	30.8	30.8
Merton	14.4	14.3	13.7	13.6	13.8
Newham	33.2	32.1	30.5	31.4	31.2
Redbridge	9.2	9.0	9.4	10.3	10.2
Richmond upon Thames	11.3	11.9	11.9	11.6	11.8
Southwark	50.0	48.5	47.2	46.7	45.6
Sutton	16.0	14.7	15.3	15.2	15.8
Tower Hamlets	44.9	42.3	40.7	39.3	40.9
Waltham Forest	24.7	22.3	21.7	22.0	21.9
Wandsworth	22.1	21.6	21.6	20.5	20.6
Westminster	22.2	21.7	21.5	21.4	21.3
Total	25.1	24.4	24.1	24.1	24.0
Source: Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix (Section A)

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Housing: Carbon Monoxide

Tom Levitt: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will review the ventilation standards for vehicle garages attached to domestic properties with a view to reducing the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. [304115]

Mr. Ian Austin: Ventilation standards for buildings are set in Part F of the Building Regulations (England and Wales), but the standards do not currently cover garages attached to dwellings.

The Department has recently consulted on proposed changes to Part F intended to ensure that health standards are not undermined by making buildings more airtight and hence energy efficient.

The consultation document did not contain any proposals to extend Part F ventilation requirements to domestic garages. However, we will consider any evidence of a need to do so as part of the next review of Part F standards starting in 2010.

Housing: Prices

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the average sale price of a home in a rural area was in each year since 1997. [305094]

Mr. Ian Austin: The average sale price of a home in a rural area in England for each year since 1997 is presented in the following table:

	Rural local authorities (£)
1997	81,133
1998	88,290
1999	97,647
2000	109,879
2001	122,185
2002	143,579
2003	166,061
2004	189,029
2005	198,804
2006	211,470
2007	226,251
2008	223,859
Source: Land Registry. Local authorities that are classed as rural under the DEFRA rural codes have been included and local authorities classed as Urban by DEFRA have been filtered out.

Housing: Regeneration

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been spent by each Pathfinder Partnership operating in the (a) North of England and (b) Midlands since the inception of that scheme. [302344]

Mr. Ian Austin: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, Central (Jim Cousins) on 21 October 2009, Official Report, columns 1503-04W.

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