Mr. ReddickTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many new dwellings have been built in166W the area covered by Kirklees council in total since 1979 and in each of the last five years for which figures are available by (a) private builders, (b) Kirklees council and (c) housing associations.
§ Mr. TrippierThe reported housebuilding completions in 1979 and 1988 for the borough of Kirklees are published in issues 59 and 89, respectively, of "Local Housing Statistics". Annual figures for intervening years appear in "Housebuilding in England by local authority areas: 1980 to 1987."
Copies of these publications are in the Library.
§ Mr. RiddickTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many tenants of Kirklees council have exercised their right to buy their council house or flat in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. TrippierI refer my hon. Friend to the "Statistics on Right to Buy and Other Council House Sales" tables which have been placed in the Library giving available information up to December 1988. The tables show year by year information since 1979–80 together with cumulative figures since April 1979. No returns of sales to sitting tenants have been received by the Department from Kirklees district council since December 1986.
§ Mr. RiddickTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the latest figure for the number of council houses in the Kirklees council area which are empty.
§ Mr. TrippierThe information was provided by Kirklees metropolitan district council in its April 1988 housing investment programme return (HIP 1), a copy of which is in the Library.