§ 17. Mr. Litherlandasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what sums, expressed in constant prices, were paid in housing subsidies to local authorities in the financial years 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, and 1981–82, respectively.
§ Mr. StanleyI shall, with permission, circulate all the relevant figures in theOfficial Report, including an explanation as to why it is not possible to produce directly comparable figures for all the years in question.