§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many local authority and development corporation-owned houses there were on the first of each month since May 1979 in each 71W local authority or development corporation area; and what, to two decimal points, these represent of the total national housing stock.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergAvailable information of numbers of dwellings, owned by each local authority in England and Wales on 1 April 1979 and estimates, made in April 1979, for end March 1980, appear in "Housing Revenue Account Statistics 1979–80 Estimates" published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and a copy of which is available in the Library. Information for other dates in 1979 and 1980 is not available centrally.
The estimated total national housing stock at April 1979 for England was 17,635,000 dwellings.