§ Mr. Freesonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the investment allocation by the Housing Corporation to housing associations working in inner city partnership and programme local authority areas in each year from 1977 to 1981; what the allocation will be in 1982–83; and if he will list the allocations during each of those years and for 1982–83 for each of the local authority areas concerned.
§ Mr. StanleyInformation about allocations by the Housing Corporation to housing associations is not available broken down by local authority area. However, for 1982–83 the corporation has for the first time compiled178W information by local authority area on the total costs of new housing association schemes for rent to which it expects to give loan approval in 1982–83—equivalent information for low-cost home ownership schemes is not available. The figures for the local authority areas concerned are:
Inner City Partnership Authorities £ million Newcastle 6.29 Gateshead 3.08 Liverpool 19.36 Manchester 11.07 Salford 5.24 Birmingham 22.28 Lambeth 11.24 Hackney 8.58 Islington 9.48
Programme Authorities £ million Bolton 4.12 Bradford 5.42 Hammersmith and Fulham 7.50 Kingston-upon-Hull 4.15 Leeds 10.82 Leicester 6.97 Middlesbrough 4.59 Nottingham 6.12 Oldham 4.96 Sheffield 5.17 Sunderland 2.12 North Tyneside 3.41 South Tyneside 3.45 Wirral 5.84 Wolverhampton 4.40 These figures relate in each case to the local authority area as a whole; separate information is not available about special areas designated under the Inner Urban Areas Act 1978 where these do not have the same boundaries as the local authority area within which they lie.