Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alison Seabeck and Gerry Sutcliffe

Monday 20th January 2014 Commons Chamber

[Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View) (Lab)]

1. What assessment he has made of the incidence of damp in social housing.

[Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South) (Lab)]

7. What assessment he has made of the incidence of damp in social housing.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Stephen Williams)]

The latest data that we have from the English housing survey, from 2011-12, indicate that 6.9% of local authority homes and 3.7% of housing association homes had some problem with damp in that year. As a consequence of the 2011-15 spending review, the coalition is investing £2.1 billion to bring social homes up to the decent homes standard.