HC Deb 31 July 1984 vol 65 cc250-1W
Mr. Pendry

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list local authorities which receive a housing investment programme allocation of £10 million or more for 1984–85; and, for each of those authorities, if he will give figures for (a) actual housing investment programme allocation for 1984–85, (b) total spending on housing capital programme for each financial year from 1979–80 to 1983–84, (c) size of housing investment programme allocations for each financial year from 1979–80 to 1983–84, (d) total number of council houses sold each financial year since the Housing Act 1980 became operative, (e) average sale price of council houses sold, (f) capital receipts actually received from the sale of council houses under right-to-buy provisions and other sources listed separately and (g) the extent to which capital receipts were used to enhance the housing capital programme in each financial year from 1979–80 to 1983–84.

Sir George Young

Following is a list of these authorities.

Local authorities with a housing capital allocation of £10 million or more for 1984–85
Birmingham Liverpool
Bolton Manchester
Bradford Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Brent Newham
Bristol
Nottingham
Camden Oldham
Doncaster Plymouth
Ealing Rochdale
GLC Salford
Greenwich
Sandwell
Hackney Sheffield
Hammersmith and Fulham Southwark
Haringey Tameside
Islington Tower Hamlets
Kensington and Chelsea
Wakefield
Kingston-upon-Hull Walsall
Kirklees Wandsworth
Lambeth Westminster
Leeds Wirral
Leicester Wolverhampton
Lewisham

For the additional details requested, I refer the hon. Member to the following sources, all of which are available in the Library.

  1. (a) the table referred to in the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Construction to my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, North-East (Mr. Thurnham) on 2 March 1984, at column 373;
  2. (b) 1979–80 and 1980–81 — copies of the authorities' 1981 HIP submissions; 1981–82 and 1982–83—tables attached to my Department's press notices No. 273 (27 July 1982) and No. 290 (18 July 1983), respectively; 1983–8.4—table referred to in the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Construction to my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Staffordshire (Mr. Heddle) on 20 July 1984, at column 360;
  3. (c) table referred to in the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Sir D. Smith) on 4 April 1984, at column 623;
  4. (d) (e) and (f) The 1981–82 and 1982–83 editions of "Housing Revenue Account Statistics" published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy contain aggregate numbers of sales, selling prices and receipts. Price and receipts information is not collected separately for right-to-buy sales;
  5. (g) authorities have been able, since 1 April 1981, to increase their allocations on account of the prescribed proportions of their capital receipts. The prescribed proportions of housing capital receipts are given in the sources listed at (b) for the relevant years.