Housing (Hansard, 27 February 1991)

§ 23. Mr. David Nicholson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the co-ordination of the work of housing associations with that of local authority housing departments.

§ Mr. Yeo
Local authorities are increasingly becoming enablers rather than direct providers of subsidised housing. They must ensure that housing needs in their areas are met, including their statutory duties towards the homeless. Housing associations are becoming the principal providers of new subsidised housing. Local authorities need to consult the Housing Corporation on housing association schemes planned for their districts and can consider sponsoring housing association schemes themselves. My Department promotes close consultation at local level, which in most areas appears to be working increasingly well.

§ Mr. Soley
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table, listing by each housing association the address of the properties sold under consents given under section 9 of the Housing Associations Act 1985 granted by the Housing Corporation for(a) 1988–89, (b) 1989–90, and (c) 1990–91 to date.

§ Sir George Young:
This is a matter for the Housing Corporation. I have therefore asked the corporation to respond to the hon. Member direct.

§ Mr. Cummings
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will list in theOfficial Report how many new houses have been built by housing associations in the Easington district council area, giving the name of the association and the location of the new build for each year since 1979;
(2) how many council houses have been sold by Easington district council; and how many new houses have been built in each year since 1979.

§ Mr. Yeo
A table showing the available information on sales for each English local authority for each financial year since 1986–87 and with a cumulative total to September 1990 was recently placed in the Library,Official Report, Volume 184, column 542.
Figures for housebuilding completions by the local authority and by housing associations in the Easington district council area in 1979 are shown in table 4(b) of "Local Housing Statistics: England & Wales", No. 59 (November 1981). Figures for the years 1980 to 1989 are shown in tables 1.1 to 1.10 of "Housebuilding in England by Local Authority Areas 1980 to 1989", and those for the first half of 1990 are shown in table 1 of "Local Housing Statistics: England & Wales", No. 95 (October 1990). Copies of these publications are in the Library. Information about individual housing associations and the location of the dwellings built within the local authority area is not held by the Department.
527W

§ 107. Mr. Vaz
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many council houses have been bought as a percentage of housing stock in each parliamentary constituency in Leicestershire.

§ Mr. Yeo
Information is not available for sales by parliamentary constituency. A table showing the available information on sales for each English local authority was recently placed in the Library,Official Report, Volume 184, column 542. It shows information for each financial year since 1986–87 together with cumulative sales figures for the period April 1979 to September 1990 and the proportion of stock sold during that period.
Late returns from Blaby and Rutland revise the totals shown in the tables as follows:

Sales 1 April 1979 to 30 September 1990 Sales as a persentage of stock

Blaby

rtb sales 1,011 26.1

all sales 1,061 27.4

of which flats 16 —

Rutland

rtb sales 592 24.7

all sales 681 28.5

of which flats 1 —

	Sales 1 April 1979 to 30 September 1990	Sales as a persentage of stock
Blaby
rtb sales	1,011	26.1
all sales	1,061	27.4
of which flats	16	—
Rutland
rtb sales	592	24.7
all sales	681	28.5
of which flats	1	—