AQW 8528/16-21


Mrs Jenny Palmer
Ulster Unionist Party
Lagan Valley


Tabled Date: 05/12/2016
Answered On Date: 15/12/2016
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the average waiting time for an individual on the NIHE waiting list, broken down by (i) Northern Ireland as a whole; and (ii) constituency, over the past five years.


Answer:
The Housing Executive has advised that when a question of “average waiting time” is asked MEAN and MEDIAN averages are provided. They have also advised that archive data is only available for the last 3 years.
The table below details the average waiting time for Northern Ireland over the last 3 years.
Mean Average Months on Waiting List
Median Average Months on Waiting List
As at 30/09/ 2014
33.1
18
As at 30/09/ 2015
35.1
20
As at 30/09/ 2016
36.9
21
(ii) The table below details the average waiting time broken down by constituency over the last 3 years.
Parliamentary Constituency
At 30/09/14
At 30/09/15
At 30/09/16
Mean Average
Median
Average
Mean
Average
Median Average
Mean Average
Median Average
Belfast East
35.5
19
36.4
17
36.1
18
Belfast East/South
46
23
53.4
27
48.1
25
Belfast North
32
17
33.2
18
34.7
20
Belfast South
31.3
19
35.7
22
37.5
25
Belfast South/Strangford
25.4
13
26.9
17
32.4
24
Belfast West
33.7
21
35.4
21
40.9
26
Belfast West/North
43.2
22.5
41.1
20
48.3
25
Belfast West/South
40.4
27
42.6
28
30.2
18
East Antrim
38
18
38.8
17
39
18
East Londonderry
31.1
15
37.9
21
41.3
26
Fermanagh South Tyrone
29.5
15
30.2
15
31.7
17
Foyle
30.4
19
33.1
21
35.1
23
Lagan Valley
33.4
15
34.6
17
33.8
17
Mid Ulster
31.7
18
32.6
19
33.6
19
Newry& Armagh
32.9
18
35.8
20
41.3
27
North Antrim
34.3
19
36.9
21
39.4
23
North Down
39.1
21
39.1
20
41.6
23
South Antrim
29.4
17
29.6
16
31.6
18
South Down
33.6
20
36.2
21
39.7
26
Strangford
33.3
18
36
20
37.9
21
Upper Bann
29.7
14
30.2
14
31.3
13
West Tyrone
28.4
14
30.3
16
32.3
18.5