§ Mr. Richardasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a breakdown of the estimated number of slums on a regional or conurbation basis, based on the National Condition of Property Survery and conurbation condition of property studies sponsored by his Department's predecessor, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
§ Mr. AmeryEstimates of the numbers of unfit dwellings in the North of England (three regions together), in the South-East region and in the rest of England and Wales were among the results of the 1967 house condition sample survey published in "Old houses into new homes" (Cmnd. 3602). The sample was too small to provide sufficiently accurate estimates for smaller divisions of the country.
Estimated numbers of unfit dwellings in five provincial conurbations—West Midlands, South-East Lancashire, Merseyside, Tyneside and West Yorkshire—were published in Housing Survey Reports Numbers 1 to 5 (H.M.S.O.) and in Housing Statistics Numbers 10, 14 and 16 which are available in the Library.