§ Mr. Winnickasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the number of public sector housing starts in each year from 1978 onwards and the estimated total starts for 1984; and what has been the reduction in percentage terms between the number of such starts in 1978 and in 1983.
§ Sir George YoungThe figures for England from 1978, including provisional statistics for January to September 1984, appear in table 2 of the Department's monthly housing statistics press notice (No. 484) published on 1 November: a copy is in the library.
Public sector housing starts were 56 per cent. lower in 1983 than in 1978.
The Department has made no estimates for the whole of 1984.