§ Mr. Cleggasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table for the years 1966–1973, inclusive, showing the number of (a) standard grants and (b) improvement grants made by local authorities in those years.
§ Mr. KaufmanIn 1973, 39,992 standard, 127,969 discretionary improvement and 16,245 conversion grants were paid to private owners by local authorities in England and Wales.562W Returns of discretionary grants paid were not collected in 1966, but the other figures for 1966 and 1967 appear in Table 33 of Housing Statistics No. 24, and for 1968 to 1972 in Table 29(b) of Housing and Construction Statistics No. 7. Copies are available in the Library.