HC Deb 13 January 1988 vol 125 cc318-9W
Sir Brandon Rhys Williams

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if, pursuant to his answer of 16 December 1987,Official Report, column 541, he will set out the figures there shown for the North Kensington task force area, relating to housing ownership and tenure, as percentages of the total population, and give the equivalent figures for Greater London and for the United Kingdom as a whole, in a similar form.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

It is not possible to give an aggregated figure for the United Kingdom because different categories were used in the survey for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. With this qualification, the information requested is as follows:

Persons percentage housing by household
North Kensington Greater London England and Wales
Persons Percentage Persons Percentage Persons Percentage
Owner occupied freehold 1,778 7.02 2,999,238 46.23 25,030,293 52.53
Owner occupied leasehold 1,308 5.16 418,355 6.45 3,877,112 8.14
Council etc. 10,672 42.15 2,005,994 30.92 13,671,990 28.69
Housing association 7,575 29.92 227,427 3.51 774,674 1.63
Rent and business 41 0.16 12,316 0.19 225,901 0.47
By employment 362 1.43 94,098 1.45 937,767 1.97
Other rent unfurnished 1,543 6.09 424,585 6.55 2,183,064 4.58
Other rent furnished 2,041 8.06 304,718 4.70 947,404 1.99
Total 25,320 100.00 6,486,731 100.00 47,648,205 100.00

Source: 1981 census of population.