§ Mr. Weetchasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, following the answer to the hon. Member for Ipswich on 2 March, Official Report, c. 166, he will give full details of the advances that make up the £502,000 balance outstanding to the Britannia building society.
§ Mr. Bruce-GardyneThe society has provided the following information, with the consent of the borrower, in respect of the four advances. They were to three companies, not four as stated in the earlier reply: I apologise to the hon. Member for this mistake.
The society has also told me that it would be willing 1:0 provide the hon. Member with further information about these transactions and the properties concerned, if he would care to approach it.
§ Mr. RidleyI take it the hon. Member has in mind outstanding mortgages, and I regret that detailed information is not available. An analysis by size and region, but not by marginal rate of tax or income level, of recent new loans advanced by building societies only could be provided by the Department of the Environment on the basis of the sample inquiry which it conducts jointly with the Building Societies Association.