§ Mr. Rowlandsasked the Secretary of State for Wales what is his Department's estimate of the number of dwellings that will be available in Wales by 1981.
§ Mr. Peter ThomasIt is not possible to make a meaningful estimate, but I am confident that local authorities and private builders will carefully and continuously assess the need and build to meet it.
§ Mr. Rowlandsasked the Secretary of State for Wales what is his Department's estimate of the number of households in Wales by 1981.
§ Mr. Peter Thomas964,000.
§ Mr. Rowlandsasked the Secretary of State for Wales what is his Department's 541W latest estimate of the number of dwellings which are at present unfit for human habitation.
§ Mr. Peter ThomasI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Cardigan (Mr. Elystan Morgan) on 29th February, 1972. I am awaiting information from local authorities on which to base a revised estimate.—[Vol. 832, c.102.]
§ Mr. Rowlandsasked the Secretary of State for Wales what assumptions his Department makes about the rate at which dwellings in Wales will become unfit for human habitation between now and 1981.
§ Mr. Peter ThomasThat the greatly increased take-up of improvement grants which has been stimulated by the 1971 Housing Act will continue to reduce the rate of decline into unfitness.
§ Mr. Rowlandsasked the Secretary of of State for Wales how many private dwellings have been completed within each of the local housing authority areas in Wales since 1966.
§ Mr. Peter ThomasBetween January, 1967 and the end of October, 1972, the total number of private dwellings completed in Wales was 55,112. Information on completions and starts in each of the 168 local housing authorities in Wales is published annually in Local Housing Statistics.