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Question for Department for Communities and Local Government

UIN HL3499, tabled on 10 November 2015

Question

Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Labour
Life peer
Lords

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people owned their own home in each year from 1997 until the last year for which records are available.

Answer

Baroness Williams of Trafford
Conservative
Life peer
Lords

Answered on

23 November 2015

The numbers of owner occupier households in England, estimated from DCLG's English Housing Survey, are provided in the table below


Number (000s) of owner occupied households, 1997 to 2013-14: England

1997

13,629

1998

13,817

1999

14,091

2000

14,340

2001

14,359

2002

14,559

2003

14,701

2004

14,678

2005

14,791

2006

14,791

2007

14,733

2008

14,628

2008-09

14,621

2009-10

14,525

2010-11

14,450

2011-12

14,388

2012-13

14,337

2013-14

14,319

Source: English Housing Survey https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/469214/2013-14_Section_1_Households_tables_and_figures_FINAL.xlsx

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