§ Mr. Edward DaveyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many unused allotment plots there were in each local authority in 1999. [142067]
§ Ms Beverley HughesThe information requested is not currently held centrally. However, the "English Allotments Survey—1997", which was commissioned by 149W my Department, provides information on the number of vacant statutory allotments in each of the following areas:
Area Number of vacant statutory plots Inner London 57 Outer London 4,189 Greater Manchester 496 Merseyside 452 South Yorkshire 874 Tyne and Wear 190 West Midlands 2,449 West Yorkshire 463 Avon 1,469 Bedfordshire 502 Berkshire 904 Buckinghamshire 716 Cambridgeshire 759 Cheshire 396 Cleveland 365 Cornwall 103 Cumbria 292 Derbyshire 390 Devon 273 Dorset 276 Durham 316 East Sussex 642 Essex 2,018 Gloucestershire 558 Hampshire 1,527 Hereford and Worcester 301 Hertfordshire 1,044 Humberside 1,284 Isle of Wight 87 Kent 963 Lancashire ' 66 Leicestershire 1,313 Lincolnshire 516 Norfolk 405 Northamptonshire 529 Northumberland 74 North Yorkshire 368 Nottinghamshire 721 Oxfordshire 832 Shropshire 52 Somerset 274 Staffordshire 532 Suffolk 1,015 Surrey 892 Warwickshire 348 West Sussex 315 Wiltshire 439 Total 33,047