§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has as to the numbers of employees of housing authorities who are housing authority tenants.
§ Mr. John PattenThis information is not collected by the Department.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the 50 housing authorities owning the highest numbers of empty dwellings, giving the figures and an indication of how many of these dwellings have been empty for more than one year.
§ Mr. John PattenThe 50 English local authorities which, in their housing investment programme returns, reported owning the largest numbers of vacant dwellings, including those which were closed, at 1 April 1985, are as follows:
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Total vacant Vacant more than 1 year Number Percentage of stock Number 1 Liverpool 6,547 10.3 3,588 2 Manchester 4,950 6.1 1,505 3 Hackney 3,379 7.4 1,319 4 Southwark 3,203 5.1 1,581 5 Sheffield 2,858 3.1 637 6 Birmingham 2,805 2.3 261 7 Islington 2,586 6.3 547 8 Sandwell 2,375 4.2 350 9 Lewisham 2,228 5.3 690 10 Newham 2,190 7.0 672 11 Bradford 1,952 5.2 710 12 Wolverhampton 1,929 4.8 338 13 Wandsworth *1,887 4.8 687 14 Salford 1,822 4.3 465 15 Lambeth 1,811 3.7 460 16 Newcastle upon Tyne 1,788 3.8 277 17 Gateshead 1,706 4.7 385 18 Tower Hamlets 1,534 8.2 790 19 Greater London Council 1,524 3.5 — 20 Sunderland 1,477 3.2 814 21 Oldham 1,339 5.1 479 22 Camden 1,247 3.7 529 23 Leeds 1,207 1.3 417 24 North Tyneside 1,076 3.7 317 25 Nottingham 1,069 2.3 31 26 Greenwich 1,058 2.9 137 27 Kingston upon Hull 1,056 2.3 16 28 Rochdale 1,034 4.7 160 29 Coventry 1,028 4.0 296 30 Leicester 988 2.9 138 31 Haringey 971 4.0 335 32 Kirklees 952 2.6 38 33 Dudley 906 2.5 192 34 Walsall 851 2.2 65 35 Westminster, City of 839 3.6 392 36 Brent 825 3.8 319 37 Calderdale 786 4.9 260 38 Easington 776 4.1 54 39 Rotherham 743 2.1 160 40 Preston 700 6.1 172 41 Wirral 694 2.8 3 42 Hammersmith and Fulham 679 3.6 150 43 Barnsley 663 2.1 102 44 Wakefield 654 1.5 27 45 Norwich 628 2.7 50 46 Hillingdon 627 3.3 26 47 Rochester upon Medway 621 5.6 11 48 Burnley 600 8.2 284 49 Tameside 592 2.8 25 50 Derby 579 2.7 57 *Total including closed dwellings, if any, is not available.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the housing authorities which underspent their housing investment programme allocation in the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. John PattenThe following authorities' prescribed capital expenditure on housing in 1984–85, as reported in their 1985 HIP2 submissions, was less than their HIP allocations:
£ thousands HIP allocation incl. Homes Insulation Scheme Gross expenditure on HIP's Teesdale 1,116 983 Wear Valley 2,160 2,137 East Yorkshire 1,290 1,264 Blaby 774 579 Rochford 1,860 1,624 Tower Hamlets 12,311 11,321 Rother 1,542 1,415 Epsom & Ewell 1,230 957 Mole Valley 1,870 1,664 Surrey Heath 1,315 1,270 Isles of Scilly 205 196 Torridge 1,874 1,547 Nuneaton & Bedworth 2,470 1,717 South Lakeland 2,090 1,917 Hyndburn 3,675 3,644 Wigan 9,345 9,180