§ 44. Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will state, for each of the last 10 years, the average local authority rent level and the average sale price of new and secondhand houses.
§ Mr. ChannonInformation on local authority rents for the last ten years is contained in Supplementary Table XXX ofHousing and Construction Statistics No. 1.
Average prices of new private dwellings mortgaged with building societies in the years 1963–71 in Great Britain and of secondhand dwellings mortgaged 194W in the years 1967–71 in the United Kingdom are given respectively in Tables 3 and 38 of Housing and Construction Statistics No. 2. An index of new house prices before 1963 appears in Table 50 of Housing Statistics No. 24. Table 44 of the same publication gives the average price of secondhand dwellings in 1966, the first full year in which this information was collected. Copies of all these publications are available in the Library.