§ Mr. Neil TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list those local authorities which(a) have completed and (b) are in the process of transferring their housing stock by means of a large scale voluntary transfer, indicating the number of units involved for each authority. [110951]
§ Mr. MullinThe local authorities which have transferred all or part of their housing stock to a new landlord are in the table:
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Local authority Number of units Chiltern DC 4,650 Sevenoaks DC 6,526 Newbury DC 7,053 Swale DC 7,352 Broadland DC 3,721 Bedford BC 7,472 Medina DC 2,825 Rochester CC 8,029 S. Wight DC 2,119 Mid Sussex DC 4,466 E. Dorset DC 2,245 Tonbridge and Mailing BC 6,382 925W
Local authority Number of units Ryedale DC 3,353 South Buckinghamshire DC 3,319 Christchurch BC 1,621 Suffolk Coastal DC 5,272 Tunbridge Wells BC 5,519 LB Bromley 12,393 Surrey Heath BC 2,885 Brecklands DC 6,781 East Cambridgeshire DC 4,266 Hambleton DC 4,268 West Dorset DC 5,279 Havant BC 3,561 Espom and Ewell BC 1,740 Hart DC 2,408 S. Shropshire DC 1,500 Leominster DC 1,832 South Ribble BC 3,445 Hertsmere BC 6,070 Penwith DC 3,354 N. Dorset DC 2,881 Wychavon DC 6,563 Mid Bedfordshire DC 2,971 Thanet DC 2,658 Vale of White Horse DC 5,028 Cherwell DC 1,322 Basingstoke and Deane BC 8,910 Malvern Hills DC 4,817 Maldon DC 2,006 Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead 6,217 Kennet DC 4,915 Rushmoor BC 5,102 N. Wiltshire DC 6,100 Spelthorne BC 3,645 E. Hampshire DC 4,059 Hastings BC 4,560 Eastleigh BC 4,332 Wyre BC 2,951 Walsall MBC 1,485 Manchester City Council 9,706 Stratford DC 6,003 West Wiltshire DC 1,769 Cotswold DC 4,282 South Staffs DC 5,273 Lichfield DC 4,921 South Oxfordshire DC 5,018 Eden DC 1,510 LB Lambeth 4,587 LB Bexley 8,215 Congleton DC 4,061 Oldham DC 642 Liverpool City Council 5,521 LB Merton 1,018 LB Tower Hamlets 4,283 Kerrier DC 3,732 LB Hackney 3,696 LB Brent 1,481 Basildon DC 708 West Somerset DC 1,869 Stoke-on-Trent CC 917 Tewkesbury DC 3,066 Rother DC 3,058 Wirral DC 1,082 Tameside MBC 901 West Devon BC 1,446 South Somerset DC 8,883 East Lindsey DC 5,102 South Hams DC 3,096 LB Hammersmith and Fulham 668 Telford and Wrekin DC 13,081 LB Enfield 1,194 Worthing DC 2,525 Bath and North East Somerset 9,887 LB Greenwich 1,280 AllerdaleDC 4,431
Local authority Number of units Preston BC 1,121 Birmingham CC 2,813 LB Islington 1,386 West Lindsey DC 3,929 Boston BC 4,871 Tynedale DC 3,564 Newcastle under Lyme BC 9,887 Restormel BC 3,577 The following authorities are in the process of transferring their stock:
Local authority Number of units Burnley BC 5,354 Coventry CC 20,479 Elmbridge BC 5,022 Huntingdonshire DC 7,134 Manchester CC 2,690 North Devon DC 3,382 LB Richmond 8,780 Tameside MBC 16,959 Test Valley BC 5,789 Weymouth and Portland BC 3,526 Wyre Forest DC 6,440 LB Hackney 2,394
§ Mr. Neil TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the amount of council house subsidy paid to each local authority in the years 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, and 1999–2000, indicating the number of council houses in each authority in those years. [110950]
§ Mr. MullinA table showing the available information has been placed in the Library. For many authorities no housing subsidy was paid because they were in assumed surplus on their Housing Element subsidy and this assumed surplus was offset against payments of Rent Rebate subsidy.