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Housing: Migration

Answer

The Department collects information in the Survey of English Housing on the nationality of the main householder and, for those born outside the UK, the year of arrival in the UK. This survey ends in April 2008 and is being replaced by a similar survey. The new survey will include a set of core questions covering nationality, country of birth and year of arrival for all members of every household interviewed for the survey. This will provide a more robust picture on migrants and housing than is currently available.Findings from the 2007-08 Survey of English Housing will be available from end-2008. The first findings from the new English Housing Survey will be available from end-2009.Information on social lettings is collected by St. Andrew's university on behalf of the Housing Corporation and the Department through the Continuous Recording of Lettings (CORE). This includes information on the characteristics of new tenants, including nationality. Information from CORE is published on the CORE website www.core.ac.uk. The Department is working with St. Andrew's university to improve the participation of local authorities in CORE.We are also working with local authorities to provide better information on numbers of homelessness acceptances for foreign nationals on the P1E statutory homelessness form.The Department has also published revised 2004-based household projections. These are linked to the Office for National Statistics' revised sub-national population projections, that used an improved methodology for estimating the distribution of international migration across England.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

190152; 473 c59-61W

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Housing Migrants

Link

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