§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has made any estimate of how much money he expects local authorities to pay out in home improvement grants for 1981–82; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergNo, the amounts paid out will depend upon decisions taken by individual local authorities on the use of their allocation for capital expenditure.
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the amounts given in home improvement grants by each local authority in England for each year since their introduction.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergThis information is not available. Annual numbers of grants reported by each authority, from 1967, appear in issues of "Local Housing Statistics" which are available in the Library. Aggregates of the amounts paid by English authorities are shown in "Housing and Construction Statistics 1969–1979"; before 1969, figures are for England and Wales combined.