§ Mr. Freesonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report, so far as is available, the number of dwellings which were unoccupied in each of the regions at the time of the last Census and the previous Census, respectively.
§ Sir K. JosephThe information required from the 1971 Census is not yet available.
The number of unoccupied dwellings in each region at the 1966 Sample Census and at the 1961 Census were:
1961 1966 Great Britain 355,864 521,540 England and Wales 314,141 472,560 North 20,286 30,290 Yorkshire and Humberside 33,087 48,090 NorthWest 41,106 60,360 East Midlands 19,395 27,510 West 24,530 39,040 East Anglia 15,060 23,040 South East 106,997 160,980 South West 31,451 48,610 Wales (I) 9,305 17,400 Wales (II) 12,924 17,260 Scotland 41,723 48,980 I will send the hon. Member the corresponding figures from the 1971 Census as soon as they become available, which is expected to be early next year.