Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many homes have been repossessed in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.
The following table provides a breakdown of the number of possessions actions in the county courts for the areas requested. Figures for the number of repossession actions by county court bailiffs prior to 2000 are not held centrally.
County court bailiff mortgage possessions, by geographical breakdown2 requested, 20001 to 2015 | |||||||||
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| Jarrow Constituency4 | South Tyneside Local Authority3 | North East3 | England and Wales3 |
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| 2000 | .. | .. | .. | 12,540 |
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| 2001 | .. | .. | .. | 11,813 |
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| 2002 | .. | .. | .. | 8,800 |
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| 2003 | 8 | 16 | 443 | 6,692 |
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| 2004 | 7 | 24 | 322 | 7,074 |
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| 2005 | 6 | 23 | 428 | 12,794 |
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| 2006 | 25 | 62 | 1,005 | 20,960 |
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| 2007 | 32 | 71 | 1,447 | 23,831 |
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| 2008 | 31 | 71 | 2,188 | 35,792 |
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| 2009 | 17 | 33 | 2,348 | 32,457 |
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| 2010 | 38 | 80 | 1,661 | 23,612 |
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| 2011 | 45 | 94 | 2,017 | 25,463 |
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| 2012 | 36 | 74 | 1,369 | 19,728 |
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| 2013 | 25 | 69 | 1,191 | 15,692 |
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| 2014 | 15 | 35 | 944 | 11,976 |
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| 2015 | 17 | 37 | 480 | 5,592 |
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| Source: Mortgage and Landlord Repossession Statistics Quarterly and the County Court Case Management System |
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| 1. ‘..’ signifies the years that the data is not available 2. The above England and Wales possession geographical breakdown is derived from the address of the defendant (rather than the location of the court processing the claim). 3. These figures are available in the public domain (in Mortgage and Landlord Repossession Statistics Quarterly) 4. These figures have been extracted from the County Court Case Management System for the purpose of answer this PQ |