§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many houses have been sold to sitting tenants by local authorities in each of the last 10 years; what was the average receipt to the authorities for each house sold; what was the average cost of (a) building new houses and (b) rehabilitating old houses for local authorities in each year; and how many new houses and rehabilitated houses, respectively, he estimates local authorities could have built with the moneys available to them from the receipts of council house sales.
§ Sir George YoungI shall answer this question shortly.