§ Mr. Priorasked the Secretary of State for the Environment by how much he estimates the price of private housing in the Lowestoft district has increased over the periods of the last two years, one year and six months.
§ Mr. FreesonThe statistics available to the Department on private house prices are of average prices where building society advances have been completed. These statistics are available only on a regional basis. In the East Anglia region, the average figure for the first quarter of 1978—the latest available—is £12,656, that for the third quarter of 1976 was £11,937, making an average increase over the 18 month period of £719 or just ever 6 per cent.