HC Deb 15 February 1982 vol 18 cc34-5W
Mr. Winnick

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether, in view of the housing waiting list in the borough of Walsall, he will take steps to provide additional resources to assist the council to build council dwellings again for ordinary residential use.

Mr. Stanley

Walsall's allocation for 1982-83, as notified on 22 December 1981, is £9,485,000. The extent to which this can be increased will depend principally on the council's use of housing and non-housing capital receipts, and in particular on its speed in selling surplus land and those of its council dwellings where the tenants are exercising their right to buy.