§ Mr. ThurnhamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has to repeal any part of subsection (i) of section 2 of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977; and if he will make a statement.
§ Sir George YoungI refer my hon. Friend to paragraph 12.1 of the consultation paper "Access to Local Authority and Housing Association Tenancies", which states that we: have no plans to alter the categories of priority need.
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§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list all the consultees to whom the consultation paper on access to local authority and housing association tenancies has been sent.
§ Sir George YoungApproximately 4,000 copies of the consultation paper have been sent out. Recipients include all English local housing authorities, the local authority associations, each hon. Member of this House with an English constituency, the Housing Corporation, the 200 largest housing associations operating in England, and a wide range of organisations with an interest in housing in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
§ Mr. Harry GreenwayTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will estimate the number of(a) owner-occupiers, (b) council tenants, (c) housing association tenants and (d) private sector tenants, including (i) protected tenancies and (ii) other tenancies; and if he will make a statement.
§ Sir George YoungThe most recent information on the main tenure breakdown is from the 1992 Labour Force Survey. It shows that in England in 1992 there were an estimated:
- 13,200,000 owner occupiers
- 3,800,000 council tenants
- 600,000 housing association tenants
- 1,800,000 private sector tenants
My reply to my hon. Friend on 18 January 1994, Official Report, column 578, gave a provisional estimate from the first half year of data collection from the new survey of English housing of about 350,000 protected tenancies in England in 1993. This remains the current estimate. An equivalent figure for 1992 is not available.
§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list for 1978–79 and each subsequent year for which data are available, the total number of dwellings let to new tenants by(a) local authorities and (b) housing associations, and of these, in each case, the number let to (i) homeless applicants and (ii) applicants from the waiting list, and the number which were first lettings of (iii) newly built and (iv) newly modernised buildings.
§ Sir George YoungThe numbers of local authority lets to new tenants in England and the numbers of these lets which were to(a) households accepted under the homelessness provisions of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 or the Housing Act 1985 and (b) applicants from the waiting list are given in the table. No information is collected centrally on lettings of newly built or newly modernised local authority dwellings.
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Thousands Local authority lettings New lettings Of which to homeless households Of which to waiting list applicants 1978–79 289 38 185 1979–80 275 41 171 1980–81 275 44 174 1981–82 251 45 167 1982–83 256 49 173 1983–84 246 49 161 1984–85 240 54 156 1985–86 247 63 153 1986–87 244 67 149 1987–88 242 74 142 1988–89 236 73 139
Local authority lettings New lettings Of which to homeless households Of which to waiting list applicants 1989–90 229 80 125 1990–91 240 97 126 1991–92 239 109 112 1992–93 230 104 111 SourceHIP1 returns.
The available information on housing associations lettings to new tenants in England is set out in the table. The figures for new lettings in the years before 1989–90 are estimates.
Housing association lettings (000s) New lettings1 Of which to households accepted as homeless by local authorities First lettings to new tenants newly built newly rehabilitated 1978–79 34 n/a n/a n/a 1979–80 37 n/a n/a n/a 1980–81 42 n/a n/a n/a 1981–82 43 n/a n/a n/a 1982–83 45 n/a n/a n/a 1983–84 47 n/a n/a n/a 1984–85 49 n/a n/a n/a 1985–86 51 n/a n/a n/a 1986–87 52 n/a n/a n/a 1987–88 54 n/a n/a n/a 1988–89 57 n/a n/a n/a 1989–90 60 n/a n/a n/a 1990–91 63 9 14 3 1991–92 71 15 20 3 21992–93 91 23 29 3 1Figures for the number of housing association new lets in years before 1989–90 are estimates based on the data for England and Wales available for these years. 2Information on the number of first lettings of newly built and newly rehabilitated properties in 1992–93 that were to new tenants is provisional. SourcesNew lettings and new lettings to homeless applicants—
Housing Corporation HAR10/1.
First lettings of newly built/rehabilitated dwellings—National Federation of Housing Associations CORE database.
§ Mr. HendryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what were the actual numbers of dwellings which were(a) privately-owned, (b) rented from local authorities, (c) rented from housing associations and (d) rented from the private sector for 1970, 1979 and the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Sir George YoungEstimates of the stock of dwellings in England by type of tenure appear in "Housing and Construction Statistics, Great Britain". Figures for December 1970 appear in the 1970–1980 annual edition, table 107, those for 1979 are in the 1979–1989 edition, in table 9.3 and those for 1992, with provisional June 1993 figures, are in part 2 of the June 1993 quarterly edition, table 2.23.
Copies of these publications are in the Library.
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