§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many old homes have been improved and modernised with 479W the benefit of improvement grants for each year since 1970; and what has been the total sum of money involved for each year.
§ Mr. ArmstrongAssistance towards the conversion, improvement and repair of 118,900 dwellings was approved in England during 1977. Grants for private owners totalled £81.4 million and the admissible costs of public sector renovation work totalled £302 million. Figures for earlier years appear in table 29 of Housing and Construction Statistics, copies of which are available in the Library.