Repossession Orders

(asked on 10th January 2017) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Oliver Heald Portrait
Oliver Heald
This question was answered on 23rd January 2017

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

Jarrow Constituency4

South Tyneside Local Authority3

North East3

England and Wales3

2000

..

..

..

12,540

2001

..

..

..

11,813

2002

..

..

..

8,800

2003

8

16

443

6,692

2004

7

24

322

7,074

2005

6

23

428

12,794

2006

25

62

1,005

20,960

2007

32

71

1,447

23,831

2008

31

71

2,188

35,792

2009

17

33

2,348

32,457

2010

38

80

1,661

23,612

2011

45

94

2,017

25,463

2012

36

74

1,369

19,728

2013

25

69

1,191

15,692

2014

15

35

944

11,976

2015

17

37

480

5,592

Source: Mortgage and Landlord Repossession Statistics Quarterly and the County Court Case Management System

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

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