§ 7. Mr. Kaberryasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government the total number of houses authorised to be built by the Leeds Corporation; and what was the number of houses actually completed by the Leeds Corporation for each of the financial years ended 31st March, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956.
§ Mr. PowellThe Answer is as follows:
Allocation Starts Completions (1) (2) (3) (4) 1950 1,120 1,020 1,215 1951 1,645 1,117 833 1952 — 1,684 1,056 1953 — 2,384 2,442 1954 2,846 2,136 2,575 1955 2,500 1,972 1,659 The allocations for 1950 and 1951 included houses to be built privately on licence. In 1952 and 1953 no limit was placed on the number of houses to be built by the Corporation.
Completions cannot be directly related to allocations. Houses in the allocation for one year normally fall to be completed in the following year, though there will be exceptions, e.g. blocks of flats which take more than a year to build. On the other hand, the number of houses started in a year is fairly closely related to the allocation for that year.