§ Mr. Michael Lathamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment 57W whether he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT each local authority to which he has so far given loan sanction to buy unsold houses off private developers under Circular 70/74, the number of dwellings approved in each local authority area, and the cumulative totals in each case; and what is the total sum of money which he has authorised to be borrowed to date for this purpose.
§ Mr. KaufmanUp to 31st October, approvals had been given for some 4,450 of these dwellings to be acquired at a total cost of about £42,460,000 by the 125 English local authorities listed below.
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Local authority and number of dwellings approved NORTHERN REGION Alnwick 2 Barrow-in-Furness 44 Blyth Valley 68 Newcastle 44 YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE REGION Glanford 7 Grimsby 18 Harrogate 7 Leeds 49 Wakefield 54 York 6 EAST MIDLAND REGION Ashfield 52 Broxtowe 119 Chesterfield 12 Corby 17 Daventry 78 Gedling 41 Leicester 44 Mansfield 56 Nottingham 428 Rushcliffe 119 EAST ANGLIA Peterborough 7 South Cambridgeshire 21 SOUTH-EAST REGION Greater London Council 85 Barnet 43 Bexley 2 Bromley 33 Camden 3 Croydon 18 Ealing 20 Greenwich 56 Harrow 16 Havering 14 Hillingdon 8 Hounslow 5 Islington 9 Kingston 45 Lewisham 50 Merton 18 Newham 58 Redbridge 20 Southwark 9 Sutton 146 Waltham Forest 90 Wandsworth 14 59W
Arun 21 Ashford 30 Basildon 30 Castle Point 16 Chichester 16 Chiltern 10 Eastbourne 98 Elmbridge 13 Epsom and Ewell 18 Gosport 30 Gravesend 2 Hastings 48 Lewes 13 Luton 80 Maidstone 9 Medina 15 Milton Keynes 10 Mole Valley 16 Newbury 22 Oxford 3 Rochford 37 Sevenoaks 11 Slough 18 Southampton 76 Southend 4 South Oxon 51 Spelthorne 5 Swale 152 Test Valley 54 Thanet 51 Thurrock 12 Tunbridge Wells 13 Waverley 22 Wealden 36 West Oxon 7 Woking 16 Wokingham 21 Worthing 15 Wycombe 48 SOUTH-WEST REGION Bath 12 Bournemouth 59 Bristol 52 Caradon 6 Christchurch 14 East Devon 20 Exeter 44 Gloucester 25 Kingswood 18 North Dorset 6 North Wiltshire 14 Penwith 7 Purbeck 60 Thamesdown 21 Torbay 17 Wimborne 61 Woodspring 4 Yeovil 4 WEST MIDLAND REGION Birmingham 82 Coventry 62 Malvern Hills 17 North Shropshire 16 Nuneaton 70 Sandwell 7 Shrewsbury 9 Stoke-on-Trent 11 Tamworth 22 Walsall 43 Warwick 44 Wolverhampton 69 Worcester 29 Wye Forest 19
Local authority and number of dwellings approved NORTH-WEST REGION Chorley 16 Crewe and Nantwich 22 Liverpool 12 Manchester 43 Oldham 6 Salford 17 South Ribble 10 St. Helens 121 West Lancashire 19 Wigan 38