HC Deb 21 January 1980 vol 977 c82W
Mr. Field

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will up-date tables 4.6 and 4.8 of the sixth report of the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

The information is as follows:

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

Grants and subsidies to housing associations have been made as follows:

From the Housing Corporation From other sources
£ million £ million
1970–71 0.4
1971–72 0.3
1972–73 1.1
1973–74 7.3
1974–75 10.8
1975–76 96.0 47.5
1976–77 230.3 197.2
1977–78 307.0 211.4
1978–79 346.2 258.8
1979–80 (to 31.12.79) 267.7 140.0

Other sources includes local authorities and the Department of the Environment.