HC Deb 10 March 2003 vol 401 cc114-5W
Jeremy Corbyn

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many(a) social and (b) regulated social landlord properties in each London borough were sold (i) to sitting tenants and (ii) on the open market in each of the last five years. [100273]

Mr. McNulty

Information reported by local authorities and registered social landlords is as follows:

Sales of stock by social landlords* to sitting tenants and others: London 1997–98 to 2001–02
1997–98 1998–99
LAs to LAs to
Local authority Sitting tenants Others RSLs to Sitting tenants Sitting tenants Others RSLs to Sitting tenants LAs to Sitting tenants
Tower Hamlets 465 n/a 0 641 n/a 0 815
Waltham Forest 192 0 0 190 0 0 289
Wandsworth 240 214 0 267 n/a 0 514
Westminster 164 n/a 0 270 0 0 403

1999–2000 2000–01 20001–02
RSLs to RSLs to
Local authority Others Sitting tenants Sitting tenants LAs to Others Sitting tenants Sitting tenants LAs to others RSLs to Sitting tenants
Barking and Dagenham 0 0 527 (3) n/a 0 374 (3) n/a 0
Barnet n/a 4 252 0 0 169 0 0
Bexley 0 74 0 0 6 0 (3) n/a 1
Brent 0 0 156 (3) n/a 1 159 0 0
Bromley n/a 60 0 0 52 0 (2) n/a 58
Camden n/a 0 760 n/a 0 671 n/a 0
City of London 36 0 50 15 0 39 15 0
Croydon 0 0 249 0 0 259 0 0
Ealing 0 2 330 0 0 309 0 4
Enfield 0 0 216 0 0 210 0 0
Greenwich n/a 0 518 0 2 470 0 0
Hackney n/a 10 764 0 17 373 (3) n/a 2
Hammersmith and Fulham 0 0 380 0 0 221 0 0
Haringey 0 0 239 (2) n/a 0 n/a n/a 0
Harrow 0 0 88 0 0 88 0 0
Havering 0 0 273 n/a 0 219 0 0
Hillingdon n/a 1 231 n/a 0 163 0 1
Hounslow 0 16 283 0 4 142(3) n/a 1
Islington n/a 4 n/a n/a 0 844 0 0
Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 108 0 0 42 n/a 0
Kingston upon Thames 0 0 51 0 0 32 0 1
Lambeth n/a 0 669 (3) n/a 0 n/a n/a 19
Lewisham n/a 0 n/a n/a 0 n/a n/a 0
Merton 0 8 164 (3) n/a 4 165 0 7
Newham n/a 0 272 (2) n/a 0 611 0 0
Redbridge n/a 1 129 0 0 101 0 0
Richmond upon Thames 0 0 33 (2) n/a 0 0 (2) N/a 3
Southwark 0 0 819 0 0 943 0 0
Sutton n/a 7 146 3 0 130 0 0
Tower Hamlets n/a 71 1,074 0 18 1,007 2 41
Waltham Forest 0 0 244 0 0 188 1 0
Wandsworth n/a 0 333 115 0 149(3) N/a 0
Westminster 8 0 449 6 1 220 2 0
* Local authorities (LAs) and Registered Social Landlords (RSLs).

Notes:

1. LA sales to sitting tenants include those under Right to Buy (RTB) and similar local schemes, plus Rent to Mortgage (RTM).

2. Other LA sales include all those to owner-occupiers under Built or Improved for Sale, but exclude transfers to RSLs and a small number of unspecified disposals.

3. Where reporting is incomplete, the bracketed figures indicate the number of quarters for which complete information was provided.

4. RSL sales to sitting tenants include RTB, RTM, Preserved RTB (in respect of ex-LA properties), Right to Acquire and Voluntary Purchase Grants.

5. Data on RSL open market stock disposals are not collected centrally at local authority level.

Sources:

1. DETR/DTLR/ODPM Housing Activity return P1B (quarterly); Housing Investment Programme returns (annual).

2. Housing Corporation Continuous Recording (CORE) returns.