§ 71. Mr. Meacherasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what has been the annual value for each year since 1950 of central Government subsidies for local authority housebuilding, national assistance or supplementary benefit housing grants, and tax relief on mortgage interest payments for owner-occupiers, respectively.
§ 3. Mr. ChannonHousing Subsidies
Below are total payments of subsidy to local authorities, new town development corporations, the Commission for the New Towns and housing associations in respect of new permanent dwellings provided by those bodies in England and 78W Wales. No separate figures are available for payments to local authorities.
£'000 1950–51 … … … 23,099 1951–52 … … … 25,397 1952–53 … … … 30,028 1953–54 … … … 35,495 1954–55 … … … 42,077 1955–56 … … … 48,200 1956–57 … … … 50,345 1957–58 … … … 53,017 1958–59 … … … 57,705 1959–60 … … … 60,086 1960–61 … … … 60,989 1961–62 … … … 63,646 1962–63 … … … 66,025 1963–64 … … … 67,966 1964–65 … … … 72,959 1965–66 … … … 77,669 1966–67 … … … 82,385 1967–68 … … … 94,132 1968–69 … … … 107,051 1969–70 (estimated) … … … 130,000 Social Security
Below are the amounts added for rent in each of the years in question in the assessment of householders in Great Britain receiving supplementary benefit. In this context rent includes rates and, in the case of owner occupiers, mortgage interest and an allowance for repairs and the insurance of the dwelling. No figures are available for earlier years.
£ million 1967 … … … … 172 1968 … … … … 192 1969 … … … … 213 Tax relief
Tax relief for owner occupiers in the United Kingdom in respect of mortgage interest was as follows. (No figures are available for earlier years. The figures do not include option mortgage subsidy.)
£ million 1962–63 … … … 75 1963–64 … … … 90 1964–65 … … … 110 1965–66 … … … 135 1966–67 … … … 157 1967–68 … … … 180 1968–69 … … … 195 1969–70 … … … 215
§ Mr. George Cunninghamasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what was the total value of housing subsidies paid to local authorities in the United Kingdom out of central Government funds in 1969–70; in respect of how many units of accommodation these subsidies were paid; and what was the average subsidy per unit of accommodation.
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§ Mr. ChannonIn 1969–70 local authorities received almost all the estimated £163 million paid in subsidies to housing authorities and associations in Great Britain. Subsidies were payable under various Acts in respect of nearly all the 5.4 million dwellings owned by local authorities but the incidence of subsidy per individual dwelling varies according to the authorities' own rent policies.