§ Miss Wrightasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the latest available figures for the annual number of council house building starts in (a) Birmingham and (b) the West Midlands; and how these compare with equivalent figures for the previous four years.
§ Sir George YoungFigures of local authority dwellings started for Birmingham in the years 1977 to 1981 appear in issues 45, 49, 53, 57 and 61, respectively, of "Local Housing Statistics"; corresponding figures for the west midlands region are given in table 73(a) of "Housing and Construction Statistics 1971–1981". Copies of these publications are in the Library.