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Written question asked by James Clappison (Conservative) on Monday, 19 July 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 21 July 2010. It was answered by Lord Stunell (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Social Rented Housing: Foreign Nationals

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many of the new (a) local authority social lettings and (b) registered social landlord lettings were to foreign nationals from (i) EU states and (ii) non-EU states in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer

Information on the number of foreign national households receiving social housing is collected through the Continuous Recording of Letting form (CORE). Historically, CORE has only collected information from registered social landlords. An increasing number of local authorities are now providing information through this process as well, but there are still some gaps in the data.Estimates for 2007-08 and 2008-09 are published on the Communities and Local Government website in table 754 at:"http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/xls/1417846.xls"For the two years for which figures are available, the proportion of new social lettings that were to EU foreign nationals and to non-EU foreign nationals are set out in the following table both for local authority landlords and for RSL landlords.

New lettings to EU and non-EU foreign nationals of new social lettings by type of provider, 2007-08 and 2008-09
Percentage
Local authority housing Registered social landlord housing All social housing
EU foreign nationals Non-EU foreign nationals EU foreign nationals Non-EU foreign nationals EU foreign nationals Non-EU foreign nationals All foreign nationals
2007-08 3.3 4.9 2.6 2.6 2.9 3.6 6.5
2008-09 3.7 5.0 2.9 2.6 3.2 3.6 6.8

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
10585; 514 c1048W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Migrants Social rented housing
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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