§ 43. Mr. Urwinasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many houses were completed in the Northern Region in the private and public sector in each year from 1963 to 1973; and what is the number of new starts in 1973.
§ Mr. EyreFigures for 1963 to 1966 can be found in Housing Statistics No. 7 (page 12) and for 1967 to 1971 in Housing and Construction Statistics 3 (page 26); copies of both publications are available in the Library.
Reported completions in 1972 numbered 11,414 in the private sector and 8,147 in the public sector; the corresponding figures for January 1973 were 1,150 and 619 completions and there were 2,047 private sector and 844 public sector starts in that month.
§ Mr. Urwinasked the Secretary of State for the Environment, of the total of new houses provided since 1963, how many have been built in each year by local authority direct labour departments and by contractors, respectively, by region.
§ Mr. ChannonThe numbers of dwellings completed for local authorities by direct labour and by contractors are given in the following table:
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DWELLINGS COMPLETED FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES: ENGLAND AND WALES Region 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 (i) Built by direct labour: Northern … … 2,251 2,834 2,727 2,285 2,746 2,346 1,245 1,646 1,431 1,273 Yorkshire and Humberside … … 1,168 1,472 3,811 1,697 1,983 1,502 1903, 1,461 1,207 1,077 NorthWest … … 3,044 2,705 2,724 1,873 2,684 2,658 2,079 1,851 1,988 1,428 East Midlands … … 475 561 457 270 447 396 437 456 330 104 West Midlands … … 688 853 208 1,072 1,136 661 697 374 209 293 EastAnglia … … 230 269 217 478 715 211 89 133 80 113 Bedfordshire/Essex/Hertfordshire … … 32 115 186 169 168 Greater London … … 2,266 1,600 1,919 2,642 2,433 3,038 3,554 3,477 2,712 2,303 South Eastern Counties … … 107 110 142 108 75 65 66 93 103 52 Southern Counties … … 14 — 1 697 137 161 134 13 7 38 SouthWest … … 56 35 92 248 103 187 65 41 26 29 Wales … … 301 559 459 187 53 231 133 93 225 159 ENGLAND AND WALES … … 10,600 10,998 12,757 11,557 12,512 11,488 10,517 9,824 8,487 7,037 (ii) Built by contractors: Northern … … 5,134 6,762 7,329 7,148 9,111 11,624 10,985 7,903 7,655 5,572 Yorkshire and Humberside … … 10,190 13,130 13,107 15,686 16,139 14,240 12,638 10,726 8,492 7,998 NorthWest … … 11,797 15,416 16,670 19,181 16,408 15,840 16,598 19,269 14,906 12,406 East Midlands … … 4,431 5,112 4,985 5,732 7,811 7,634 6,612 6,874 5,930 5,830 West Midlands … … 11,600 13,238 16,284 14,031 22,280 17,777 17,588 13,890 10,665 5,674 East Anglia … … 6,437 7,773 8,129 12,255 12,263 4,631 4,245 3,616 3,652 3,117 Bedfordshire/Essex/Hertfordshire … … 6,215 5,639 5,348 4,646 4,042 Greater London … … 12,048 12,875 15,863 17,217 19,899 19,607 19,459 23,758 20,430 16,730 South Eastern Counties … … 4,493 6,231 6,534 7,210 7,795 7,660 6,105 5,191 5,106 3,994 Southern Counties … … 5,530 7,222 9,464 10,391 9,336 8,754 7,914 6,810 5,822 5,557 SouthWest … … 5,017 7,677 8,305 8,941 8,844 7,906 6,648 5,827 6,798 5,179 Wales … … 5,988 8,150 8,290 8,441 9,788 8,034 7,686 6,420 5,228 3,343 ENGLAND AND WALES … … 82,665 103,586 114,960 126,233 139,674 129,922 122,117 115,632 99,330 79,442