§ Mr. HannamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many units of housing association new build are(a) mobility standard and (b) wheelchair standard for the each year for the last five years; and of those how many units are for sheltered housing for elderly people for both (1) mobility and (2) wheelchair standard;
(2) if he will list, for each year for the last five years, how many units of wheelchair housing of housing association new build have (a) one, (b) two and (c) three bedrooms, excluding those within sheltered housing schemes for elderly people.
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§ Mr. YeoThe available information on completions of newly built specialised dwellings for 1985 to 1989 is published in table 6.7 "Housing and Construction Statistics 1979–1989: Great Britain" and, for the first half of 1990, in table 1.5 of the June quarter 1990 (Part I) edition of the same title. Wheelchair and mobility standard dwellings for the elderly are not separately identified, nor does the Department collect information about the number of specialised dwellings by number of bedrooms.
§ Mr. HannamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many housing association schemes have been audited since the new requirement to build to mobility standard was introduced; and of these how many met the requirement to be of mobility standard;
(2) how many housing association schemes, which were package deal schemes, have been audited since the new requirement to build to mobility standard was introduced; and of these how many met the requirement to be of mobility standard.
§ Mr. YeoThis is a matter for the Housing Corporation. I have therefore asked the corporation to respond to my hon. Friend direct.