§ Dr. Godmanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how much money has been received from the sale of council house units in Inverclyde since 1981; how much has been spent on new housing starts; what has been the housing support grant in each of these years; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. AncramThe information is given in the table:
Year Receipts from council house sales Expenditure on new dwellings Housing Support Grant £ million £ million £ million 1981–82 0.489 0.661 4.443 1982–83 0.958 0.235 3.048 1983–84 1.850 0.065 1.865 1984–85 1.941 0.146 1.163 1985–86 3.144 0.734 0.563 1986–87 12.512 10.825 — 1 Inverclyde district council estimates. The gross provisional housing revenue account capital allocation for Inverclyde district council for 1987–88 is £5–5 million. This represents a substantial 73 per cent, increase in resources over the three-year period since 1984–85. It is, of course, for the local authority to determine its own priorities for expenditure between newbuild and improvement and modernisation of its existing stock.