Lynne Jones
Labour, Birmingham, Selly Oak
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many vulnerable households were living in non-decent homes in (a) 1996, (b) 2001, (c) 2004 and (d) the latest year for which figures are available, broken down by tenure.
Yvette Cooper
Minister of State (Department of Communities and Local Government) (Housing and Planning)
The following table, from the English house condition survey, provides a breakdown of "vulnerable" households by decent and non-decent homes and by tenure. "Vulnerable" households are defined as those in receipt of principal means tested and disability related benefits, as listed in "A Decent Home: Definition and guidance for implementation—June 2006 update".
| Vulnerable households in non-decent homes by tenure, 1996 to 2005 | ||||
| Number (Thousand) | ||||
| Owner occupied | Private rented | All private | All social | |
| 1996 | ||||
| Decent | 880 | 196 | 1,076 | 1,487 |
| Non-decent | 929 | 504 | 1,433 | 1,648 |
| 2001 | ||||
| Decent | 1,285 | 256 | 1,542 | 1,815 |
| Non-decent | 784 | 366 | 1,151 | 1,098 |
| 2003 | ||||
| Decent | 1,506 | 277 | 1,783 | 1,874 |
| Non-decent | 722 | 335 | 1,056 | 978 |
| 2004 | ||||
| Decent | 1,617 | 347 | 1,963 | 1,966 |
| Non-decent | 691 | 342 | 1,033 | 852 |
| 2005 | ||||
| Decent | 1,697 | 387 | 2,084 | 2,037 |
| Non-decent | 709 | 362 | 1,071 | 786 |
| Percentage | ||||
| Owner occupied | Private rented | All private | All social | |
| 1996 | ||||
| Decent | 48.6 | 28.0 | 42.9 | 47.4 |
| Non-decent | 51.4 | 72.0 | 57.1 | 52.6 |
| 2001 | ||||
| Decent | 62.1 | 41.2 | 57.3 | 62.3 |
| Non-decent | 37.9 | 58.8 | 42.7 | 37.7 |
| 2003 | ||||
| Decent | 67.6 | 45.3 | 62.8 | 65.7 |
| Non-decent | 32.4 | 54.7 | 37.2 | 34.3 |
| 2004 | ||||
| Decent | 70.1 | 50.3 | 65.5 | 69.8 |
| Non-decent | 29.9 | 49.7 | 34.5 | 30.2 |
| 2005 | ||||
| Decent | 70.5 | 51.7 | 66.1 | 72.2 |
| Non-decent | 29.5 | 48.3 | 33.9 | 27.8 |
| Note: The net increase in private sector vulnerable households living in non-decent homes means that, while the proportion has continued to show good progress, the number (and therefore overall costs to tackle the problems) have made only modest improvement since 2001. Source: English House Condition Survey, Communities and Local Government. | ||||
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