Justice written question – answered at on 13 October 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) immediate and (b) suspended orders for possession have been made in mortgage possession proceedings in Wrexham County Court in the last five years for which records are available.
The following table shows the number of mortgage possession claims issued and the number of suspended and outright orders made in Wrexham county court since 2003. However, the statistics on orders made in 2007 are not available for this court. Estimates have been produced for 2007 for Wales as a whole and these are shown in the table.
Court level statistics on mortgage and landlord repossession actions from 1987 to 2007 are available on the Ministry of Justice website at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/mortgagelandlord possession.htm
These figures do not indicate how many houses have been repossessed through the courts, since not all the orders will have resulted in the issue and execution of warrants of possession.
The civil procedure rules state that all claims for the repossession of land must be commenced in the district in which the land is situated. As county courts' jurisdictions are not coterminous with the borough boundaries, any single court's repossession actions are likely to relate to homes in a number of different boroughs.
Mortgage( 1) possession claims issued and orders made in Wrexham county court and the county courts of Wales, 2003-07 | ||||||
Wrexham county court | Wales region | |||||
Claims issued | Suspended orders( 2) | Outright orders( 3) | Claims issued | Suspended orders( 2) | Outright orders( 3) | |
2003 | 139 | 57 | 32 | 4,193 | 1,729 | 1,099 |
2004 | 186 | 54 | 60 | 4,314 | 1,527 | 1,120 |
2005 | 236 | 92 | 78 | 6,469 | 2,156 | 1,789 |
2006 | 301 | 118 | 106 | 8,207 | 2,700 | 2,736 |
2007(4) | 362 | — | — | 9,187 | (4)2,991 | (4)3,208 |
(1) Mortgage possession data include all types of lenders whether local authority or private. (2) The court grants the claimant possession but suspends the operation of the order. Provided the defendant complies with the terms of suspension, which usually requires the defendant to pay the current mortgage instalments plus some of the accrued arrears, the possession order cannot be enforced. (3) The court, following a judicial hearing, may grant an order for possession immediately. This entitles the claimant to apply for a warrant to have the defendant evicted. However, even where a warrant for possession is issued, the parties can still negotiate a compromise to prevent eviction. (4) The rollout of the Possession Claim On-Line (PCOL) system in late 2006 has affected the availability of court-level data on mortgage possession orders. As a result it is possible only to provide court-level figures for those courts with direct on-site PCOL access for 2007. Wrexham does not have this access and therefore the required court level data are not available. Estimated figures for Wales as a whole are shown instead. Source: Ministry of Justice. |
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