§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what proportion of the expenditure incurred by the Property Services Agency on construction and maintenance for clients carried out on a repayment basis is added to the cost of such work to cover the Property Services Agency's administration costs; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. ChopeActual administration costs as recorded in the PSA's staff costing system are recovered from the following:
- Royal Ordnance Factory Organisation
- Manpower Services Commission
- British Telecom
- Land Registry
- Department of National Savings
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office
- Major new construction projects for other repayment clients
For other clients, administration costs are recovered by percentage additions to works expenditure as follows:
30 June 1983, (c) between 1 July 1983 and 30 June 1984, (d) between 1 July 1984 and 30 June 1985, (e) between 1 July 1985 and 30 June 1986 and (f) between 1 July 1986 and 30 June 1987; and if he will give this information for the south-east as a whole, and for each local authority in the region.
§ Mr. WaldegraveAvailable information is as follows:
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Households for whom local authorities accepted responsibility for securing accommodation: Percentage1 becoming homeless through mortgage default/arrears South East Region2 Year Ending 30th June 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 Greater London City of London .. 0 0 0 0 0 Barking and Dagenham .. 5 4 5 5 7 Barnet .. 4 3 2 3 2 Bexley .. 12 8 10 5 13 Brent .. 1 1 1 1 .. Bromley .. 5 7 7 5 9 Camden .. 1 .. .. .. .. Croydon .. 3 5 4 3 3 Ealing .. 2 1 1 1 1 Enfield .. 5 5 7 5 2 Greenwich .. 3 3 1 2 2 Hackney .. .. .. .. .. .. Hammersmith and Fulham .. 0 0 1 .. .. Haringey .. 1 1 1 1 1 Harrow .. 3 6 2 6 6 Havering .. 9 7 7 12 10 Hillingdon .. .. 5 3 2 3 Hounslow .. 2 2 1 2 2 Islington .. 0 0 0 0 0 Kensington and Chelsea .. 0 0 0 0 0 Kingston upon Thames .. 2 2 2 0 3 Lambeth .. .. .. .. .. .. Lewisham .. 2 3 3 2 2 Merton .. 3 1 1 6 3 Newham .. .. .. .. .. 5 Redbridge .. 3 6 9 8 8 Richmond upon Thames .. 2 4 4 4 3 Southwark .. 1 1 1 0 0 Sutton .. 7 5 3 6 4 Tower Hamlets .. 0 0 0 .. 1 Waltham Forest .. 4 .. 1 2 3 Wandsworth .. 2 2 1 0 1 Westminster .. 0 0 0 0 0 Bedfordshire Luton 12 17 15 24 25 16 Mid Bedfordshire 0 33 21 33 18 20 North Bedfordshire 7 3 — — 5 10 South Bedfordshire 17 12 13 11 17 6 Berkshire Bracknell 11 7 19 5 22 12 Newbury 8 9 15 17 17 14 Reading 7 7 8 7 4 3 Slough 3 4 7 10 11 9 Windsor and Maidenhead 3 5 1 4 7 3 Wokingham 7 16 12 17 6 21 Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Vale 15 10 6 6 22 11 Chiltern 0 2 9 10 13 5 Milton Keynes 11 9 8 12 15 12 South Bucks 0 2 0 8 0 10 Wycombe 5 10 7 5 2 3 East Sussex Brighton 2 7 5 5 4 5 Eastbourne 2 7 10 13 8 8 Hastings 10 13 10 9 13 9 Hove 6 4 2 6 6 7 Lewes 8 9 3 11 10 7 Rother 9 8 6 6 10 12 Wealden 12 4 18 15 12 12 Essex Basildon 3 2 7 8 12 8 Braintree 11 6 23 29 24 25 Brentwood 6 0 0 7 4 8 Castle Point 32 18 17 .. 31 12 Chelmsford 9 8 7 20 33 15 Colchester 7 4 5 6 17 10 Epping Forest 9 8 6 5 6 11 308W309W
South East Region2 Year Ending 30th June 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 Harlow 3 8 3 3 4 4 Maldon 10 13 6 12 14 21 Rochford 17 23 15 15 16 9 Southend-on-Sea 14 18 20 17 16 10 Tendring 16 23 20 22 20 32 Thurrock 5 3 11 11 14 15 Uttlesford 21 20 9 16 17 13 Hampshire Basingstoke and Deane 2 4 5 12 13 8 East Hampshire 1 6 9 13 14 6 Eastleigh 6 2 10 15 21 20 Fareham 5 3 18 19 3 7 Gosport 11 6 7 3 9 20 Hart 0 10 6 4 14 17 Havant 1 1 7 4 2 4 New Forest 7 5 8 10 9 9 Portsmouth 5 3 10 8 12 9 Rushmoor 3 6 3 7 7 4 Southampton 6 4 1 2 1 23 Test Valley 2 3 3 6 5 4 Winchester 0 0 31 5 4 7 Hertfordshire Broxbourne 6 4 5 11 8 3 Dacorum 5 5 2 6 6 2 East Hertfordshire 6 8 11 10 22 22 Hertsmere 4 0 .. 6 4 4 North Hertfordshire 7 5 6 5 5 4 St. Albans 2 2 4 5 10 5 Stevenage 6 2 5 1 3 7 Three Rivers 6 1 1 3 5 8 Watford 2 1 2 4 5 4 Welwyn Hatfield 5 5 5 3 3 4 Isle of Wight Medina 2 8 2 6 12 5 South Wight 3 7 14 5 9 13 Kent Ashford 6 10 7 16 22 15 Canterbury 24 26 6 8 9 11 Dartford 10 13 7 11 13 11 Dover 9 13 10 10 10 13 Gillingham 24 20 24 22 27 13 Gravesham 9 10 14 16 10 8 Maidstone 5 4 4 5 5 8 Rochester upon Medway 7 15 21 18 18 6 Sevenoaks 5 3 5 4 9 3 Shepway 20 18 18 15 15 9 Swale 19 13 7 11 14 11 Thanet 12 9 13 19 21 17 Tonbridge and Malling 5 6 8 7 7 10 Tunbridge Wells 2 6 11 7 8 4 Oxfordshire Cherwell 13 15 18 12 17 22 Oxford 2 1 1 0 2 0 South Oxfordshire 0 1 0 4 1 4 Vale of White Horse 10 12 8 13 22 17 West Oxfordshire 8 7 9 7 17 7 Surrey Elmbridge 2 6 3 4 4 4 Epsom and Ewell .. 2 0 4 3 6 Guildford 1 0 2 3 4 3 Mole Valley 0 7 2 0 4 4 Reigate and Banstead 1 3 2 4 6 7 Runnymede 9 3 0 9 2 4 Spelthorne 3 2 0 0 4 5 Surrey Heath 6 16 0 26 3 15 Tandridge 2 6 2 10 1 7 Waverley 3 2 5 3 5 3 Woking 4 5 14 8 3 4
South East Region2 Year Ending 30th June 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 West Sussex Adur 5 6 6 5 4 7 Arun 13 13 23 32 21 22 Chichester 0 0 3 1 1 1 Crawley 3 3 0 3 7 5 Horsham 7 9 2 2 7 16 Mid Sussex 5 10 6 8 6 6 Worthing 8 7 6 7 11 16 South East excluding London (non Metropolitan Authorities) 7 7 8 9 10 10 South East .. 4 4 5 6 6 Notes:
1 If not all returns were received, percentage calculated from those available.
2 The standard region comprising Greater London and the non-metropolitan districts in the Department of the Environment administrative Eastern (excluding East Anglia) and South Eastern regions.
.. Not available. Data for London prior to July 1982 was collected under a different recording and statistical system; information in the form requested is not readily available.
0 = Nil or less than 0.5 per cent.
§ Mr. Chris SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the number of homeless households in priority need who were accepted by non-metropolitan authorities in the south-east region(a) between 1 April 1981 and 31 March 1982, (b) between 1 April 1982 and 31 March 1983, (c) between 1 April 1983 and 31 March 1984, (d) between 1 April 1984 and 31 March 1985, (e) between 1 April 1985 and 31 March 1986 and (f) between 1 April 1986 and 31 March 1987; and if he will give this information for the south-east region as a whole, and for each local authority in the region.
Households for whom local authorities accepted responsibility for securing accommodation—priority need cases: South-east region1 Thousands 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 South-east excluding London (non-metropolitan districts) 11.8 12.1 12.1 12.5 14.0 16.1 South-east 29.7 31.5 34.5 37.8 43.0 46.9 1 The standard region comprising Greater London and the non-metropolitan districts in the Department of the Environment administrative Eastern (excluding East Anglia) and South-eastern regions.
Mr. Robert G. HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will make extra resources available to help with the problem of homelessness.
§ Mr. WaldegraveFor this financial year, we have already offered an extra grant for housing associations providing better interim accommodation for homeless families under the mixed funding initiative.
In addition, my right hon. Friend announced on 3 November that further resources would be made available for local authorities with the most pressing needs to spend this year on projects for families who would otherwise be homeless.
For next year, provision for housing capital spending has been increased by £384 million as compared with previous plans, including an increase in the Housing Corporation's programme to £735 million. The new initiative on mixed funding will also draw on additional private resouces and harness them to the provision of social housing.
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§ Mr. WaldegraveFigures provided by local authorities in their annual housing investment programme returns appear in the "HIP1 All Items print": copies of these prints for the years 1984 to 1987 are available in the Library and copies of those for 1982 and 1983 will be placed there shortly.
Following are estimates derived from the local authorities' figures: