§ Mr. Hefferasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government (1) what was the total housing subsidy paid to Liverpool for the past financial year;
(2) What were the housing subsidies paid annually to Liverpool for the years 1964 to 1968.
§ Mr. MacCollThe subsidy payments made to Liverpool Corporation in respect of housing provided by it under the Housing Acts were as follows:
£ 1963–64 1,328,576 1964–65 1,452,229 1965–66 1,634,337 1966–67 1,727,837 1967–68 2,058,923 1968–69 2,433,615
§ Mr. Hefferasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what are the housing subsidies paid to Liverpool on various types of houses and flats.
§ Mr. MacCollSubsidies are payable to Liverpool—as to other housing authorities—on any new dwelling provided by it and approved for the purpose under Part I of the Housing Subsidies Act 1967, or under corresponding provisions in earlier Acts.
Categories of subsidy payable under the 1967 Act include the basic aggregate cost subsidy, expensive site subsidy and supplementary subsidies for building flats in blocks of four or more storeys, buildings using special materials or on sites subject to subsidence. The incidence of these varies from scheme to scheme, and the subsidy paid is applied 43W in general relief of the authority's housing finances; it would be misleading to sub-divide the amounts of subsidy as between one type of dwelling and another.
§ Mr. Hefferasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how many corporation tenancies there are in Liverpool; and how many houses in total are owned by the Liverpool Corporation.
§ Mr. MacCollThe Liverpool Corporation has about 93,000 dwellings, and I understand that at any time some 500 are unoccupied, about half awaiting new tenants and the remainder under repair or conversion.
§ Mr. Hefferasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how many private housing tenants there are in Liverpool.
§ Mr. MacCollThe latest figures available are from the 1966 10 per cent. sample census. If multiplied by 10, the figures give a total of 78,930.
§ Mr. Hefferasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how many owner-occupiers for housing there are in Liverpool.
§ Mr. MacCollIn April, 1966, there were about 60,000 owner occupiers in Liverpool. Since then some 1,200 dwellings have been completed for owner-occupation, but I have no information to show what proportion of the houses demolished since that date were owner-occupied, nor how many privately rented houses have since been bought for owner-occupation.