How many of the estimated 141,000 tenants have applied under the central heating installation programme since April 2001 and how many have …

We estimate that 23,000 local authority tenants, 6,000 housing association tenants and 40,000 pensioners who are private sector tenants or owner occupiers lack central heating. From April 2004 the programme will be extended to 20,000 local authority tenants to convert partial systems to whole house systems.Over 5,200 local authority tenants, 1,500 housing association tenants and 3,500 households in the private sector will benefit this year. Information on the programme will be collected and a full report will be published each year.