§ Mr. Dewarasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if, further to his reply of 23 April 1982, Official Report, c. 163, he will now give a detailed breakdown of the following aggregated figures for 1982–83 contained in his reply, namely (a) capital expenditure, local authority gross expenditure £408 million, (b)total new towns and Scottish Housing Association gross investment £74 million and (c) total sales and repayments £106 million, in terms of the original 1982–83 estimate and the provisional outturn for 1982–3.
§ Mr. YoungerAs local authorities, the Scottish Special Housing Association and the new town developmnt corporations are free to spend their block allocations according to their own priority and programmes; any breakdown of the original aggregate figure would be notional. The information requested on the provisional outturn is shown in the following table, and these are the figures which underlie those contained in the expenditure White Paper, Cmnd. 8797.
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Capital Expenditure £ million Local authority gross expenditure Land 7 New dwellings 85 Acquisitions Improvement Investment 162 Other 16 Improvement Grants 47
£ million Gross lending to private persons for house purchase and improvements 36 Loans and grants to the housing associations 11 Total local authority gross expenditure 364 New Towns and Scottish Special Housing Association gross investment Land 1 New Dwellings 30 Acquisitions 1 Improvements 43 Total new towns and Scottish Special Housing Association group investment 75 Sales and repayments Land and dwellings, local authorities -115 New towns and Scottish Special Housing Association -25 Associated lending—gross 59 Repayments -5 Repayments of loans to private persons for house purchase and improvements -17 Repayments of loans to housing associations -1 Total sales and repayments -104