HC Deb 12 May 1972 vol 836 cc448-9W
Mr. O'Halloran

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many privately-owned houses and council-owned houses, respectively, were built by each local housing authority in the Greater London area, including the Greater London Council, during the past five years.

Mr. Eyre:

The numbers completed in each area are as follows:

Dwellings completed 1967 to 1971
Local authorities (including GLC) Private sector
City of London 650
Barking 3,783 107
Barnet 2,350 2,500
Bexley 2,576 2,401
Brent 4,547 605
Bromley 2,766 5,445
Camden 3,479 932
Croydon 2,455 5,060
Ealing 3,542 2,315
Enfield 4,866 1,452
Greenwich 4,131 804
Hackney 7,005 189
Hammersmith 1,781 264
Haringey 4,163 797
Harrow 971 1,590
Havering 2,470 2,599
Hillingdon 3,323 2,386
Hounslow 3,422* 1,346
Islington 6,063† 170
Kensington & Chelsee 927 749
Kingston upon Thames 1,175 1,406
Lambeth 4,291 768
Lewisham 4,585 1,370
Merton 1,400 497
Newham. 4,828 221
Redbridge 1,788 1,355
Richmond upon Thames 1,165 2,349
Southwark 7,906‡ 678
Sutton 2,630 1,566
Tower Hamlets 7,924 112
Waltham Forest 4,183 533
Wandsworth. 4,985 968
Westminster 2,766 1,901
*Including 27 completions for Richmond LB.
† Including 327 completions for City of London.
‡ Including 56 completions for City of London.

Mr. Knox

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many local authority houses and how many private houses were built in the Biddulph Urban District in each of the past ten years.

Mr. Eyre:

The numbers of dwellings returned by Biddulph U.D. as completed in each of the years 1966 to 1971 appear in Local Housing Statistics Nos. 1, 5, 9, 13, 17 and 21, copies of which are in the Library. Figures returned for the other years are as follows:

Dwellings completed
Local authority Private sector
1962 10 64
1963 4 59
1964
1965 245 321