§ Mr. DunnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the number of dwellings which have been empty for more than six months for each London borough and the percentage which empty properties constitute of each council's housing stock; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. BaldryThe latest information reported by the London boroughs in their annual housing investment programme (HIP1) returns relates to April 1992 and is as follows:—
Borough London Authority dwellings empty more than six months All empty London Authority dwellings Number Percentage of stock Percentage of stock City of London 6 0.3 1.5 Barking and Dagenham 6 0.0 1.1 Barnet 26 0.2 1.0 Bexley 14 0.2 1.0 Brent 261 1.4 3.4 Bromley 9 0.1 0.9 Camden 135 0.4 1.8 Croydon 19 0.1 2.0 Ealing 90 0.5 2.1 Enfield 18 0.1 1.8 Greenwich 156 0.5 1.7 Hackney 1,776 4.4 6.0 Hammersmith and Fulham 85 0.5 2.3 Haringey 87 0.4 1.7 Harrow 20 0.3 1.4 Havering 14 0.1 1.6 Hillingdon 62 0.4 1.6 Hounslow 24 0.1 1.5 Islington 259 0.7 1.9 Kensington and Chelsea 32 0.4 1.8 Kingston upon Thames 4 0.1 1.9 Lambeth 633 1.4 3.1 Lewisham 301 0.8 2.0 Merton 5 0.1 0.9 Newham 555 2.1 3.4 Redbridge 130 1.5 4.2 Richmond upon Thames 34 0.4 1.8 Southwark 638 1.1 2.9 Sutton 12 0.1 1.0 Tower Hamlets 1,068 2.6 4.2 Waltham Forest 93 0.5 2.0 Wandsworth 67 0.3 1.8 Westminster 159 0.9 1.8