Multiple Occupation: Licensing

(asked on 8th February 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Jim Cunningham Portrait
Jim Cunningham
(Labour - Coventry South)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of licences issued for houses of multiple occupation in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 11th February 2016

The numbers of licences issued for houses in multiple occupation during the relevant period were:

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

Coventry

233

216

282

357

West Midlands

1,426

2,997

3,284

3,562

England

34,464

36,256

27,182

38,530

The Department only began collecting this data in 2011 and collects data in respect of England.

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data

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