§ Mr. Joseph Deanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment which local authorities have notified him of their intention of demolish houses or flats built by industrialised or semi-industrialised systems; how many units of housing are involved; and what were the original costs.
§ Mr. Stanley[pursuant to his reply, 21 May 1982, c. 203]: Local authorities are not required to notify my right hon. Friend of their intention to demolish dwellings built by industrialised systems, and consequently the information sought by the hon. Member is not available. Authorities make an annual return of the numbers of dwellings in their ownership that they demolish, broken down between slum clearance and other losses. From the figures received for 1980–81, our best estimate is that, excluding dwellings demolished for slum clearance or redevelopment reasons, there were some 2,000 local authority dwellings demolished because they were defective, but we do not have statistics as to which of these were built by industrialised methods or their original cost.