§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many empty homes there are(a) in England and (b) in each county or metropolitan district; and what each represents as percentage of housing stock. [72282]
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§ Mr. McNultyThe number of empty homes in England at 1 April 2001 (latest data available) was 755,100. This figure represents 3.5 per cent. of all housing stock.
The number of empty homes in each county, unitary or metropolitan district at 1 April 2001 is shown in the table. Also given is the percentage of housing stock the vacant dwellings represent.
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Region/county/local authority Total number of vacant dwellings Percentage of stock vacant North East Metropolitan districts Gateshead 3,220 3.7 Newcastle upon Tyne 3,767 3.1 North Tyneside 3,814 4.2 South Tyneside 2,578 3.8 Sunderland 4,934 4.0 Unitary authorities Hartlepool 1,708 4.3 Middlesbrough 1,977 3.4 Redcar and Cleveland 2,822 4.6 Stockton-on-Tees 3,046 4.0 Darlington 2,095 4.8 Counties County Durham 11,341 5.1 Northumberland 1— 1— North West Metropolitan districts Bolton 4,643 4.1 Bury 1,299 1.6 Manchester 17,081 8.8 Oldham 3,362 3.6 Rochdale 4,817 5.4 Salford 5,543 5.5 Stockport 4,255 3.5 Tameside 1— 1— Trafford 2,386 2.6 Wigan 5,146 3.9 Knowsley 2,700 4.0 Liverpool 18,734 9.1 Sefton 4,433 3.6 St. Helens 1— 1— Wirral 6,493 4.6 Unitary authorities Halton 1,842 3.6 Warrington 1,425 1.8 Blackburn with Darwen 4,374 7.5 Blackpool 3,498 5.2 Counties Cheshire 1— 1— Cumbria 8,540 3.8 Lancashire 23,462 4.7 Yorkshire and Humberside Metropolitan districts Barnsley 4,602 4.8 Doncaster 6,086 4.7 Rotherham 1— 1— Sheffield 11,980 5.3 Bradford 9,980 5.0 Calderdale 5,382 6.1
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Region/county/local authority Total number of vacant dwellings Percentage of stock vacant Kirklees 5,798 3.5 Leeds 14,338 4.6 Wakefield 5,197 3.8 Unitary authorities East Riding of Yorkshire 4,516 3.3 Kingston upon Hull 8,388 7.3 North East Lincolnshire 3,303 4.8 North Lincolnshire 2,511 3.8 York 3,062 3.9 Counties North Yorkshire 11,044 4.4 East Midlands Unitary authorities Derby 4,470 4.5 Leicester 6,585 5.6 Rutland 543 3.9 Nottingham City 3,328 2.8 Counties Derbyshire 10,919 3.4 Leicestershire 1— 1— Lincolnshire 1— 1— Northamptonshire 8,129 3.1 Nottinghamshire 10,609 3.3 West Midlands Metropolitan districts Birmingham 21,538 5.3 Coventry 4,807 3.8 Dudley 3,191 2.5 Sandwell 4,542 3.7 Solihull 891 1.1 Walsall 4,178 3.9 Wolverhampton 5,424 5.3 Unitary authorities Herefordshire 2,375 3.2 Telford and Wrekin 2,247 3.6 Stoke-on-Trent 6,141 5.7 Counties Hereford and Worcester 4,941 2.2 Shropshire 4,211 3.5 Staffordshire 1— 1— Warwickshire 1— 1— East Unitary authorities Luton 2,456 3.4 Peterborough 2,517 3.6 Southend-on-Sea 1,889 2.5 Thurrock 1,981 3.4 Counties Bedfordshire 3,815 2.4 Cambridgeshire 1— 1— Essex 1— 1— Hertfordshire 1— 1— Norfolk 1— 1— Suffolk 1— 1— London Metropolitan districts Barking and Dagenham 1,329 2.0 Barnet 3,153 2.3 Bexley 1,982 2.1 Brent 5,504 5.3 Bromley 4,318 3.3 Camden 4,335 4.7 City of London 31 0.6 Croydon 4,401 3.2 Ealing 2,449 2.1
Region/county/local authority Total number of vacant dwellings Percentage of stock vacant Enfield 1— 1— Greenwich 3,058 3.3 Hackney 3,254 3.8 Hammersmith and Fulham 4,557 5.9 Haringey 4,815 5.1 Harrow 1,218 1.5 Havering 2,702 2.9 Hillingdon 2,511 2.5 Hounslow 1,050 1.2 Islington 3,237 3.8 Kensington and Chelsea 6,067 6.9 Kingston upon Thames 1— 1— Lambeth 2,572 2.1 Lewisham 4,025 3.5 Merton 2,114 2.8 Newham 5,102 5.5 Redbridge 1— 1— Richmond upon Thames 1,757 2.3 Southwark 6,367 5.6 Sutton 2,238 2.9 Tower Hamlets 5,429 6.6 Waltham Forest 2,739 2.9 Wandsworth 2,079 1.7 Westminster 2,957 2.7 South East Unitary authorities Bracknell Forest 801 1.8 Reading 2,221 3.8 Slough 575 1.3 West Berkshire 1,596 2.7 Windsor and Maidenhead 865 1.5 Wokingham 1,139 1.9 Milton Keynes 2,259 2.6 Brighton and Hove 2,167 1.8 Portsmouth 1,675 2.1 Southampton 4,411 5.0 Isle of Wight 1,969 3.2 The Medway Towns 2,687 2.6 Counties Buckinghamshire 3,953 2.1 East Sussex 10,000 4.4 Hampshire 1— 1— Kent 1— 1— Oxfordshire 5,355 2.2 Surrey 1— 1— West Sussex 1— 1— South West Unitary authorities Bath and North East Somerset 550 0.8 Bristol 6,168 3.6 North Somerset 3,015 3.8 South Gloucestershire 1,842 1.8 Plymouth 4,508 4.3 Torbay 355 0.6 Bournemouth 4,120 5.4 Poole 2,151 3.5 Swindon 1,826 2.3 Counties Cornwall 5,035 2.2 Devon 15,970 5.1 Dorset 3,843 2.2 Gloucestershire 1— 1— Somerset 1— 1— Wiltshire 5,131 2.8 1 Unknown (missing or only partial data provided by one or more local authorities within a county). Sources:
ODPM's 2001 Housing Strategy statistical appendix returns and Housing Corporation's 2001 Regulatory and Statistical Return (RSR).