§ Mr. Marksasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how many houses have been completed by Manchester Corporation, Denton Urban District Council and Audenshaw Urban District Council in each year since 1964; what is their future programme; and what restrictions the Government are placing on this programme.
§ Mr. MacCollThe Government have not restricted building by these authorities, but future programmes have not yet been fixed for Denton and Audenshaw. Details of past performance and Manchester's published estimates of future completion levels are as follows:
COMPLETIONS 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 Manchester C.B. 3,939 3,435 2,659 2,784 2,346 Audenshaw U.D. 44 — 98 154 49 Denton U.D 8 35 40 62 8 I am not in a position to forecast the performance of individual authorities but 63W the Manchester Corporation has published the following estimate of completions:
1969 1970 1971 1972 3,232 3,784 4,546 4,531 1973 1974 1975 1976 4,502 4,064 1,300 525
§ Mr. Marksasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what was the amount of housing subsidy paid to Manchester County Borough, Audenshaw Urban District Council and Denton Urban District Council in 1964 and 1968; and how many houses each authority built in those years.
§ Mr. MacCollThe subsidy payments made to these authorities in respect of housing provided by them under the Housing Acts were as follows:
Manchester County Borough Council Audenshaw Urban District Council Denton Urban District Council £ £ £ 1963–64 1,076,852 13,796 26,067 1964–65 1,414,455 10,901 27,682 1967–68 1,725,759 30,566 30,699 1968–69 1,863,870 26,608 33,282 The houses completed were as follows:
1964 3,939 44 8 1968 2,346 49 8