AQW 9351/22-27 Written question to the Minister for Communities
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the average turnaround time from a Housing Executive tenant vacating a property to the new tenant moving in, in each of the last five years, broken down by constituency.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 21 March 2024
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 21 March 2024
- Answer due by
- 9 April 2024
- Answered
- 10 May 202450 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Communities
- Priority question
- No
Answer
This issue is an operational matter for the Housing Executive.
I have sought the requested information from the Chief Executive, who has advised me as follows:
“The table below shows the figures for the average number of days for relets, for the last five financial years, broken down by area office. It should be noted that the Housing Executive do not report these figures by Parliamentary Constituency.
| Area Office | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 | 2019/20 | 2018/19 |
| Lisburn | 74 | 52 | 46 | 19 | 18 |
| North Belfast | 46 | 55 | 59 | 18 | 21 |
| South & East Belfast | 36 | 22 | 44 | 18 | 20 |
| West Belfast | 50 | 26 | 26 | 17 | 20 |
| Belfast Region | 55 | 40 | 44 | 18 | 20 |
| Mid Ulster | 14 | 22 | 15 | 16 | 20 |
| Ards & North Down | 21 | 22 | 26 | 15 | 17 |
| South | 26 | 36 | 27 | 18 | 19 |
| South Down | 14 | 15 | 32 | 12 | 17 |
| South West | 8 | 18 | 15 | 13 | 11 |
| South Region | 20 | 25 | 26 | 15 | 17 |
| Causeway | 16 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 12 |
| Mid & East Antrim | 44 | 39 | 49 | 17 | 23 |
| South Antrim | 47 | 73 | 61 | 19 | 20 |
| West | 15 | 20 | 21 | 13 | 18 |
| North Region | 33 | 41 | 37 | 15 | 18 |
| **Northern Ireland | 35 | 36 | 36 | 16 | 18 |
** The Northern Ireland total has been calculated by dividing the total number of days that relet properties were vacant, by the total number of relets.”
For any future queries relating to operational matters, you may wish to contact the Housing Executive directly. Making direct contact with them will ensure that you receive the information in the shortest possible timeframe and make best use of public resources.