HC Deb 30 January 1991 vol 184 cc532-3W
20. Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the number of housing starts in the northern region in the last quarter of 1990 and in 1990 as a whole.

Sir George Young

The Department's preliminary estimates for housebuilding in 1990 will not be available until 6 February 1991. However, over the three months to November 1990 there were 2,055 housing starts in the Northern region. In the first 11 months of 1990 there were 8,763 housing starts.