Communities and Local Government written question – answered am ar 30 Ebrill 2009.
Mike Penning
Shadow Minister (Health)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many affordable homes have been built in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire in each year since 1997.
Iain Wright
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Communities and Local Government)
Information on affordable housing completions is collected by the East of England Regional Assembly using returns from local authorities. It is available by borough/district council for the years since 2001 only.
The following table sets out the numbers of affordable housing completions and this amount as a percentage of total housing completions.
| Hemel Hempstead (Dacorum Borough) | |||
| Affordable housing completions (net) | Total housing completions (net) | Affordable housing as a percentage of total completions | |
| 2001-02 | 44 | 318 | 14 |
| 2002-03 | 101 | 642 | 16 |
| 2003-04 | 28 | 430 | 7 |
| 2004-05 | 55 | 301 | 18 |
| 2005-06 | -29 | 167 | 0 |
| 2006-07 | 137 | 413 | 33 |
| 2007-08 | 118 | 391 | 30 |
| Total | 454 | 2,662 | 17 |
| Note: The figure for affordable housing completions in 2005/06 (-29) includes demolition of council affordable housing stock. | |||
| Hertfordshire | |||
| Affordable housing completions (net) | Total housing completions (net) | Affordable housing as a percentage of total completions | |
| 2001-02 | 489 | 3,151 | 16 |
| 2002-03 | 577 | 3,214 | 18 |
| 2003-04 | 589 | 3,085 | 19 |
| 2004-05 | 862 | 4,043 | 21 |
| 2005-06 | 842 | 4,054 | 21 |
| 2006-07 | 1,222 | 4,343 | 28 |
| 2007-08 | 1,168 | 4,277 | 27 |
| Total | 5,749 | 26,167 | 22 |
| Note: Figures are provided by the East of England Regional Assembly and may show minor differences to local authority's own annual monitoring data. | |||
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