§ Mr. Freesonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the figures for local authority lending for house purchase by owner-occupiers and housing
124Wlatest available analyses by industrial sectors are those for April.
Between March and April there were increases in the numbers of wholly unemployed in all the industrial groups except shipbuilding and marine engineering, agriculture, forestry and fishing, construction and the group covering catering, hotels and other such establishments.
Following is the detailed information for 5th April 1971:
associations, respectively, for the years 1965 to 1970, inclusive, and a detailed estimate for such lending in each category for 1971.
§ Mr. AmeryThe figures for 1965 to 1970 are published in Tables 53(a) and (b) of Housing Statistics, Great Britain, issue number 20, a copy of which is available in the Library I expect there to 125W be a substantial increase in lending in both categories during 1971, but I am not prepared to make a detailed estimate.