To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her Department's estimate is of the (a) population, (b) number of households and (c) average household size in each standard Government region in each year since 2003; and what her Department's latest estimate is in each case for each year until the last year of the planning horizon used by the Department.

This information is provided in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister statistical release "New Projections of Households for England and the Regions to 2026" that was published on 14 March 2006. The regional figures are presented in table E at the following web link:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1002882& PressNoticeID-2097