HC Deb 13 November 1972 vol 846 cc35-6W
Mr. Sydney Chapman

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what records his Department keeps of the numbers of dwelling units completed each year which fail to conform to the standards recommended in the Parker Morris Report, "Homes for Today and Tomorrow", and how many of such dwellings were completed in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Mr. Channon

Information is not available in the form requested, but analysis of tenders accepted by local authorities—excluding the Greater London Council—and new towns, shows that the numbers of their dwellings which did not incorporate all the Main Parker Morris recommendations, were 74,200 included in tenders in 1967, 30,800 in 1968, 1,300 in 1969, 800 in 1970 and 700 in 1971.