Rent Arrears (Hansard, 19 July 1991)

§ Mr. Yeo

I have today placed in the Library tables listing cumulative rent arrears of London boroughs, and arrears as a percentage of rent roll, for each year since 1981. The corresponding figures for earlier years are not available centrally.

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Source: Housing Subsidies and Grants: Second Advance Claim Forms.

Note: Large year to year changes in arrears up to 1987 may be due to changes in reporting (ie high figures may include arrears of rates or service charges). From 1987 onwards figures for rent arrears only have been estimated where necessary (indicated by ^*).

Cumulative rent arrears at the end of March 1986 to 1990
	1986	1987	1988	1988	1990
London boroughs	Arrears	Arrears as percentage of rent roll	Arrears	Arrears as percentage of rent roll	Arrears	Arrears as percentage of rent roll	Arrears	Arrears as percentage of rent roll	Arrears	Arrears as percentage of rent roll
	£ million	per cent.	£ million	per cent.	£ million	per cent.	£ million	per cent.	£ million	per cent.
Barking and Dagenham	1.20	4.90	0.70	3.00	0.80	3.20	0.80	3.20	0.70	2.70
Barnet	1.00	4.90	0.60	3.00	0.80	3.70	1.00	4.40	1.30	5.80
Bexley	0.30	2.80	0.30	2.80	0.30	3.00	0.30	3.20	0.30	2.80
Brent	11.00	63.00	6.50	38.50	^*8.10	46.90	^*13.70	49.00	15.80	44.60
Bromley	0.50	3.20	0.40	2.70	0.40	2.00	0.60	3.10	0.70	3.50
Camden	4.40	15.60	4.60	16.00	4.70	15.30	5.80	15.20	7.50	17.80
City of London	0.10	4.80	0.10	2.40	0.10	1.90	0.10	3.30	0.20	4.30
Croydon	1.70	8.20	1.20	5.60	1.30	6.00	1.40	5.60	1.80	6.60
Ealing	1.70	8.20	1.90	8.90	2.20	10.20	5.70	26.20	5.70	18.30
Enfield	1.00	4.80	1.10	5.70	1.20	5.10	1.70	6.50	1.00	3.50
Greenwich	2.90	10.00	3.50	12.10	4.80	15.30	5.50	14.10	8.10	18.00
Hackney	5.50	16.20	6.60	19.80	8.40	24.10	12.40	30.30	15.30	29.50
Hammersmith and Fulham	1.70	7.50	1.90	7.90	2.20	8.40	3.70	10.50	6.40	17.40
Haringey	5.60	28.50	3.20	16.50	4.10	18.80	7.20	25.60	11.90	30.30
Harrow	0.60	6.30	0.40	4.30	0.40	4.00	0.60	5.90	0.70	6.60
Havering	0.70	4.30	0.50	3.00	0.50	2.80	0.60	3.30	0.60	3.10
Hillingdon	0.50	2.50	0.40	2.30	0.50	2.50	0.50	2.80	0.60	3.00
Hounslow	0.90	4.90	1.10	5.60	1.10	5.60	1.00	4.70	1.60	5.20
Islington	6.20	18.30	6.50	19.60	9.80	27.40	13.10	28.90	6.50	12.10
Kensington and Chelsea	1.20	8.40	1.00	7.20	1.10	7.00	1.30	8.20	1.70	9.90
Kingston upon Thames	0.10	1.60	0.10	1.80	0.10	1.70	0.30	3.00	0.30	3.10
Lambeth	10.00	24.00	7.50	18.00	12.60	29.90	17.50	35.70	17.40	32.50
Lewisham	6.80	19.50	4.20	12.00	4.70	12.20	5.70	12.80	5.80	11.90
Merton	1.20	7.40	1.10	7.70	0.80	5.20	0.70	5.00	1.30	7.60
Newham	2.70	10.70	3.10	11.40	3.60	12.10	5.40	16.00	9.90	21.60
Redbridge	0.60	3.90	0.70	4.90	0.80	5.50	1.30	8.50	1.60	8.70
Richmond upon Thames	0.20	2.00	0.20	2.00	0.30	2.90	0.40	4.00	0.80	5.80
Southwark	13.40	24.40	14.70	27.80	19.00	29.30	^*26.80	35.50	27.00	31.90
Sutton	0.40	2.70	0.40	2.60	0.40	3.10	0.80	5.60	0.70	4.50
Tower Hamlets	2.30	6.80	2.30	5.60	2.20	4.90	2.20	4.70	3.10	6.10
Waltham Forest	4.40	23.60	2.70	14.10	3.10	16.00	4.40	20.60	3.20	13.80
Wandsworth	2.80	6.80	2.50	5.40	2.40	5.30	3.40	6.90	3.80	8.10
Westminster	1.80	6.20	1.90	6.50	1.80	6.10	1.70	5.60	2.00	5.50

Source: Housing Subsidies and Grants: Second Advance Claim Forms.