§ Mrs. Bridget PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the current housing stock in each London borough in the(a) private rented, (b) council owned and (c) housing association categories. [10888]
§ Mr. ClappisonThe number of local authority and housing association dwellings in each London borough on 1 April 1995 reported by local authorities on their 1995 housing investment programme—HIP1—returns, were as follows.
Local authority(1) Housing association Barking and Dagenham 26,648 596 Barnet 13,242 4,100 Bexley 8,673 2,890 Brent 16,673 9,076 Bromley 80 17,849 Camden 29,789 6,520 City of London 2,256 195 Croydon 16,393 6,655 Ealing 16,204 6,517 Enfield 15,558 2,857 Greenwich 32,297 5,443 Hackney 39,560 10,552 Hammersmith and Fulham 16,417 8,977 Harringey 20,842 7,687 Harrow 6,551 1,533 Havering 13,302 1,332 Hillingdon 12,881 4,151 Hounslow 16,476 4,044 Islington 37,045 8,363 Kensington and Chelsea 7,958 11,007 Kingston upon Thames 5,548 1,254 Lambeth 43,068 11,275 Lewisham 35,095 7,500 Merton 9,458 2,500 Newham 25,818 7,730 Redbridge 6,761 2,131 Richmond upon Thames 7,703 2,786 Southwark 54,266 9,801 Sutton 10,038 2,538 Tower Hamlets 37,578 7,200 Waltham Forest 16,179 4,166 Wandsworth 21,522 9,139 Westminster 15,701 12,143 London total 637,580 200,507 (1) Includes any dwelling owned by the authority outside its own area.
Corresponding figures for private rented stock are not available; data are collected from local authorities on total private sector stock, but this is not split between owner-occupied and rented dwellings.