§ Mr. John Evansasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many people are officially registered as homeless in each of the metropolitan districts of Merseyside and Greater Manchester and the county districts of Cheshire and Lancashire;
(2)which local authority in the North West is at present incurring the highest average costs, and which local authority is at present incurring the lowest average costs, for modernising pre-war two and three-bedroomed council houses;
(3)how many designated slum clearance dwellings are awaiting clearance in the North-West of England.
§ Mr. KaufmanI would refer my hon. Friend to the replies I gave him on Wednesday, 4th December 1974.—[Vol. 882, c. 523–4, 536 and 537.]