Written question asked by Lord Khan of Tooting (Labour) on Thursday, 12 January 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 16 January 2006. It was answered by Yvette Cooper (Labour) on Thursday, 2 February 2006 on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Overcrowding (London)

Question: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what his latest estimate is of the number of households in London living in overcrowded housing conditions.

Answer: The number of households in London that do not meet the bedroom standard over the three-year period 2002–03, 2003–04 and 2004–05 was 194,000.Information on compliance with the statutory overcrowding standard is not collected systematically and reliable estimates for London on this basis are not available. However, in the autumn of 2001, it was estimated that 25,000 households across the whole of England were living in conditions that breached these standards. This was based on data from the ““Survey of English Housing”” for the period 1997–98 to 1999–2000 and from the 1996 ““English House Condition Survey””.

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