HC Deb 17 April 1957 vol 568 cc212-3W
Mr. Hay

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will state, to the latest convenient date, in respect of each metropolitan borough council, the total number of separate dwellings held on requisition, the number of families accommodated therein, the number of invitations issued to owners to accept licensees as statutory tenants under Section 4 of the Requisitioned Houses and Housing (Amendment) Act, 1955, and the number of owners who have accepted invitations under that Section.

Mr. H. Brooke

The latest information available—at 31st March, 1957—is set out in the following table. The figures are subject to correction.

REQUISITIONED HOUSES AND HOUSING (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1955
Metropolitan Borough Council Number of separate* dwellings held on requisition Invitations under Section 4 to accept licensees as statutory tenants
Issued to owners Accepted by owners
Battersea 1,012 2,170 1,121
Bermondsey 122 164 86
Bethnal Green 312 418 219
Camberwell 2,909 2,968 1,361
Chelsea 1,150 1,239 46
Deptford 1,066 1,732 670
Finsbury 425 369 192
Fulham 1,039 683 244
Greenwich 1,054 1,477 419
Hackney 2,246 2,312 833
Hammersmith 897 1,456 553
Hampstead 1,056 790 142
Holborn 625 569 220
Islington 1,243 1,765 660
Kensington 859 1,023 258
Lambeth 2,216 2,811 836
Lewisham 1,754 2,826 902
Paddington 1,673 578 35
Poplar 744 716 248
St. Marylebone 706 337 116
St. Pancras 893 1,083 370
Shoreditch 449 676 320
Southwark 364 969 686
Stepney 1,123 916 791
Stoke Newington 702 899 239
Wandsworth 2,582 4,107 1,543
Westminster 1,211 1,219 94
Woolwich 465 602 146
30,897 36,794 13,350
* The number of vacant dwelling-3 is not known.

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