§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list, up to the month for which figures are most recently available (a) the monthly totals of tenants who have applied to the tenants exchange scheme to have their details computer-listed in council offices and (b) the monthly totals of tenants who have asked for their details to be removed from the lists.
§ Mr. StanleyThe information is not available in the form requested as some tenants have registered with the tenants exchange scheme more than once so as to have their details displayed in different parts of the country. The available information on total registrations recorded and total registrations deleted each month is as follows:
Period Number of registrations recorded Number registrations deleted 1 April 1982 to 2 May 1982 4,173 0 3 May 1982 to 30 May 1982 4,780 0 31 May 1982 to 27 June 1982 10,019 141 28 June 1982 to 1 August 1982 11,780 238 2 August 1982 to 29 August 1982 6,230 242 30 August 1982 to 3 October 1982 4,742 327 4 October 1982 to 31 October 1982 4,049 303 1 November 1982 to 28 November 1982 3,230 291 29 November 1982 to 2 January 1983 1,656 205 3 January 1983 to 30 January 1983 2,439 200
§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide funds to enable the Institute of Housing to produce further editions of an annual review to supplement the 1980 edition and to show the effects or trends of the national mobility scheme and the tenants exchange scheme.
§ Mr. StanleyNo. The institute is responsible for its own affairs. The national mobility office records moves made under the national mobility scheme. The national mobility office has published its first annual report describing the operation and results of the national mobility scheme in 1981–82. I placed a copy of it in the Library in August 1982. My Department keeps records of registrations with the tenants exchange scheme.
§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the headquarters cost of the first year of the national mobility scheme; how many tenants moved from one local authority area to another in England and Wales; and how many tenants moved in the year ended 31 March 1979.
§ Mr. StanleyThe total cost to my Department of the national mobility office (NMO) in 1981–82, its first year, was £65,455. In this period, 2,737 households were reported to the NMO as having moved under the scheme from one local authority area to another in a different county. About 650 moves from one local authority area to another within the same county were reported to have taken place under the scheme outside the Greater London area but this is likely to be a significant under-recording of moves within counties. Within Greater London, 1,259 moves were made under the inter-borough nomination scheme, and 5,609 under the Greater London mobility scheme. Comparable figures for 1978–79 are not available.