Justice written question – answered at on 29 October 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) repossession notices were served and (b) ejection orders were granted by the courts in each year since 1985.
The following table shows the number of notices of issue served for repossession and the number of suspended and outright ejection orders made in the county courts of England and Wales in each year since 1987, the earliest year for which these statistics are available.
For future reference, court level statistics on mortgage and landlord repossession actions from 1987 to 2007 can be viewed on the Ministry of Justice website at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/mortgatelandlordpossession.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 figures for properties taken into possession are available from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
Possession actions in the county courts of England and Wales since 1987 | ||||||
Mortgage( 1) | Landlord (standard procedure)( 2, 3) | Landlord (accelerated procedure)( 2, 4) | ||||
Claims | Orders( 5, 6) | Claims | Orders( 5, 6) | Claims | Orders( 5, 6) | |
1987 | 79,160 | 48,814 | 79,332 | 47,129 | — | — |
1988 | 72,655 | 47,769 | 103,756 | 62,914 | — | — |
1989 | 91,309 | 53,066 | 156,679 | 104,923 | — | — |
1990 | 145,350 | 103,508 | 131,017 | 112,780 | — | — |
1991 | 186,649 | 142,905 | 119,134 | 95,013 | — | — |
1992 | 142,162 | 126,881 | 117,671 | 96,958 | — | — |
1993 | 116,181 | 105,283 | 96,497 | 82,724 | — | — |
1994 | 87,958 | 77,681 | 83,081 | 63,561 | — | — |
1995 | 84,170 | 75,258 | 102,995 | 82,599 | — | — |
1996 | 79,858 | 71,203 | 111,807 | 87,849 | — | — |
1997 | 67,073 | 57,156 | 130,163 | 99,869 | — | — |
1998 | 84,836 | 66,055 | 155,128 | 112,236 | — | — |
1999 | 77,885 | 55,964 | 171,476 | 111,067 | 13,908 | 11,395 |
2000 | 70,430 | 50,918 | 176,123 | 114,321 | 16,660 | 13,254 |
2001 | 65,862 | 47,997 | 175,901 | 117,684 | 17,518 | 13,558 |
2002 | 63,203 | 41,759 | 177,377 | 118,598 | 18,096 | 13,557 |
2003 | 65,886 | 41,038 | 159,724 | 107,211 | 18,352 | 13,483 |
2004 | 77,250 | 46,683 | 154,186 | 102,630 | 20,429 | 15,156 |
2005 | 114,764 | 70,964 | 144,636 | 96,977 | 21,078 | 15,892 |
2006 | 131,219 | 90,680 | 135,048 | 89,631 | 23,011 | 17,322 |
2007 | 137,591 | 95,433 | 122,250 | 87,500 | 24,540 | 18,959 |
(1) Mortgage data includes all types of lenders. (2) Landlord data includes all types of landlords. (3) For 1987 to 1989, these standard procedure actions involved only social landlords. (4) Accelerated procedure actions are not available prior to 1999. This procedure is used by landlords in relation to assured shorthold tenancies, when the fixed period of tenancy has come to an end. It enables orders to be made by the court solely on the basis of written evidence and without calling the parties to a hearing. (5) Orders include suspended orders and orders made. (6) 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. Source: Ministry of Justice. |
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