§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for the Environment, what are the numbers of (a) council houses and (b) houses being bought on mortgage.
§ Mr. StanleyIt is estimated that on 1 April 1980 local authorities in England owned approximately 4.95 million housing revenue account dwellings. In addition, at the end of 1980 approximately 95,800 dwellings were in the rented stock of new town corporations. It is estimated that at the end of 1979 there were 10,047,000 owner-occupied dwellings in England. In 1977–78, an estimated 57 per cent. of such dwellings were being purchased with the help of a mortgage according to the national dwelling and housing survey.