HC Deb 16 April 1981 vol 3 cc238-9W
Mr. Scott

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will provide in cost terms the same information as that which is shown in volume terms in (a) table 2.7 and (b) table 4.5 of Cmnd. 8175;

(2) if he will itemise the constituents of the net figure given in table 2.7 of Cmnd. 8175 for total sales and repayments to the housing programme in England of £654 million for 1981–82 between (a) gross sales by local authorities and new towns, (b) gross associated lending by local authorities and new towns and (c) repayments of loans;

(3) if he will itemise the different revaluation factors which have been applied to the different sections of the public expenditure housing programme for England, as shown in table 2.7 of Cmnd. 8175, in order to convert the 1979 survey prices in last year's Public Expenditure White Paper (Cmnd. 7841) into the 1980 survey prices shown in Cmnd. 8175;

(4) if he will explain the marked differences in the year-to-year percentage changes in the public expenditure housing programme between the figures shown in last year's White Paper (Cmnd. 7841) at 1979 survey prices and the same figures shown in this year's White Paper (Cmnd. 8175) at 1980 survey prices.

Mr. John Stanley

I shall write to my hon. Friend.