§ Mr. Molloyasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will take further action to improve the speed at which the monthly housing figures are made available.
§ Mr. GreenwoodWith my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, I have been considering how to make this information available more quickly. We propose in future to issue the figures in a Press statement as soon as they are available. This will enable the figures to be published about ten days earlier than the present monthly housing summary which will no longer be issued. Copies of the Press Statement will be sent to the House of Commons' Library and monthly figures on housing progress will also continue to be available in "Housing Statistics: Great Britain" (H.M.S.O.) and in the "Monthly Digest of Statistics" (H.M.S.O.). The new arrangements will first apply to the figures for June.