Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many housing associations have demolished residential buildings that are less than 10 years old in each of the last five years; and what the reasons were for those demolitions.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Homes and Communities Agency and (b) Wandle Housing Association Limited on the demolition of residential buildings in Solomon's Passage, Peckham.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
None. The Regulator is aware of the issues relating to Solomon’s Passage in Peckham. They are currently considering the information provided by Wandle Housing Association in line with our processes for dealing with referrals related to the consumer standards.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the total number of housing association properties in the London Borough of Southwark that would become available to buy under the Government's current proposal to extend the right to buy policy to housing association tenants.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The development of the policy is ongoing, and details will be set out in due course.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) single-headed households, (b) households with children, (c) households with pensioners, (d) households where one or more person is employed and (e) households with a disabled member were placed in temporary accommodation by the London Borough of Southwark in the last 12 months.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
653 households were placed in temporary accommodation by Southwark council in 2014. No data is held centrally on the types of households being placed in temporary accommodation.
In the calendar year 2014, 449 households left temporary accommodation in Southwark as a result of accepting an offer of accommodation, although no figures are held centrally as to whether the accommodation offered was within the Borough.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households that were placed in temporary accommodation in the last 12 months by the London Borough of Southwark were housed (a) outside and (b) within that Borough.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
653 households were placed in temporary accommodation by Southwark council in 2014. No data is held centrally on the types of households being placed in temporary accommodation.
In the calendar year 2014, 449 households left temporary accommodation in Southwark as a result of accepting an offer of accommodation, although no figures are held centrally as to whether the accommodation offered was within the Borough.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households that were placed in temporary accommodation in the last 12 months by the London Borough of Southwark outside the London Borough of Southwark were households with dependent children.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
653 households were placed in temporary accommodation by Southwark council in 2014. No data is held centrally on the types of households being placed in temporary accommodation.
In the calendar year 2014, 449 households left temporary accommodation in Southwark as a result of accepting an offer of accommodation, although no figures are held centrally as to whether the accommodation offered was within the Borough.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households that were placed in temporary accommodation in the last 12 months by the London Borough of Southwark were permanently rehoused within that borough.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
653 households were placed in temporary accommodation by Southwark council in 2014. No data is held centrally on the types of households being placed in temporary accommodation.
In the calendar year 2014, 449 households left temporary accommodation in Southwark as a result of accepting an offer of accommodation, although no figures are held centrally as to whether the accommodation offered was within the Borough.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households in the London Borough of Southwark were evicted from private rental accommodation in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
This information is not held centrally. However, the English Housing Survey Headline Report, published on 25 February 2015, makes it clear that in most cases, it is the private rented tenant who chooses to end the tenancy.
In 2013-14, 81% of private renters who had moved in the last three years, ended their previous private rented tenancy because they wanted to move; 7% were asked to leave by their landlord or agent; 10% of tenancies were ended by ‘mutual agreement’.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the change in the average house price in the London Borough of Southwark in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Annual statistics on average house prices in the London Borough of Southwark are published in the Department's live tables 585 (mean) and 586 (median) which are available at the following link.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-housing-market-and-house-prices
Monthly statistics on the change in average house prices, at national and regional level, are published by the Office for National Statistics and are available at the following link:
http://ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/hpi/house-price-index/index.html
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the level of change in median monthly rent in the private sector in the London Borough of Southwark for (a) one, (b) two and (c) three-bedroom flats in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Statistics on the private rental market in England and the London Borough of Southwark are published by the Valuation Office Agency and are available at the following link.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/private-rental-market-statistics-may-2015
The Valuation Office Agency advises that because the composition of this sample changes over time, it is not possible to compare median rents provided in this publication with statistics in previous publications to infer trends in the rental market over time. The statistics therefore provide a snapshot that shows the range of rents across England.
The official source on change over time in cost of renting is the Office for National Statistics Index of Private Housing Rental Prices available at the following link.