§ Mr. Stephen Rossasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will conduct a survey into the proportion of new units of accommodation provided by local authorities which are occupied by people being rehoused from development schemes.
§ Mr. ArmstrongThe Department has been conducting annual inquiries about the reletting of council houses since 1973. Provisional results from the 1975 inquiry indicate that about 20 per cent. of all dwellings let to tenants in England and Wales in 1974 were to people displaced by slum clearance or redevelopment. The inquiry does not separate lettings as between new and existing accommodation.