Written question asked by James Clappison (Conservative) on Tuesday, 19 October 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 22 October 2010. It was answered by Lord Stunell (Liberal Democrat) on Friday, 22 October 2010 on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Social Rented Housing: Immigrants

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many and what proportion of the new (a) local authority social lettings and (b) registered social landlord lettings were made to foreign nationals from (i) A8 countries and Romania and Bulgaria, (ii) other EU member states and (iii) non-EU member states in 2009-10; and what the equivalent figures were for each of the last 30 years.

Answer: Figures for the 2009-10 financial year are not yet available but will be published on the Communities and Local Government website in December 2010 in table 754, which can be accessed at the following link:"http://www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingstatistics/housingstatisticsby/rentslettings/livetables/"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, though a number of local authorities are now also providing information through this process.A question on nationality was first introduced to the form for the 2006-07 data collection period. For historical data, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 27 July 2010, Official Report, column 1048W.

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