§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT those local authorities that have discontinued house building and those that have considerably curtailed their house building, respectively together with the relevant figures indicating housing completions in 1967, 1968, 1969 and the estimates for 1970.
§ Mr. RossAlthough in recent months we have not received the number of the formal submissions for approval which authorities' provisional programmes had led us to expect, I have no evidence that the cause has been policy decisions to discontinue or curtail house building. It would be unrealistic to expect some of the smaller authorities to undertake a new scheme every year, and the programmes of even the largest authorities vary from year to year.
Statistics of new house construction in each local authority district for 1967, 1968 and the first quarter of 1969 will be found in the Housing Returns for Scotland, 31st December, 1967, 31st December, 1968, and 31st March 1969, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.