{"value":{"id":77040,"askingMemberId":3929,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2014-07-10T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2014-07-14T00:00:00","uin":"205010","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the number of council-owned homes in England which are affected by damp; and if he will make a statement.","answeringBodyId":7,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Communities and Local Government","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4009,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2014-08-21T00:00:00","answerText":"<p> </p><p>According to the English Housing Survey, in 2012 there were around 116,000 (7%) local authority homes affected by damp, down from 214,000 (12%) in 2009. The Department for Communities and Local Government have allocated £2.26 billion of decent homes funding for 2011-16 to further reduce this number.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Council Housing","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/77040","method":"GET"}]}