§ Mr. Viggersasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report figures to show the extent to which house prices have increased up to January 1981, compared with prices which applied when assisted house purchase schemes for the Armed Forces were established in 1975, when the upper limit on loans was set at £3,500.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergIn the period from April 1975 to January 1981, the average price of houses purchased with building society mortgages (measured at mortgage completion stage) is estimated to have increased by 112 per cent.