§ 34. Mr. MacGregorasked the Secretary of State for the Environment why the allocations made in the housing investment programme for 1978–79 as a proportion of the original bids were very much lower for improvement grants and council mortgages than for the other block of housing expenditure.
§ Mr. FreesonIn deciding the resource allocation for Block 2, covering home loans and improvement grants, account was taken of the £267 million support lending for local authority nominees which we have negotiated with the Building Societies' Association for 1978–79.