§ Mr. Hayasked 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. BrookeThe latest information available—at 31st March, 1957—is set 213W 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.