System-built Housing

HC Deb 01 July 1983 vol 44 c165W

Mr. Campbell-Savours

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress is being made on the rehabilitation of system-built housing.

Sir George Young

In 1982–83, the provisional outturn for local authority and new town expenditure on the rehabilitation of housing in their ownership was £850 million. In the calendar year 1982, local authorities accepted tenders amounting to £120 million for work on post war dwellings; this excludes work to be carried out in contracts below the financial thresholds set by the project control system. The data which the Department receives do not distinguish between system-built and other types of construction.

Local authorities determine the priority to be accorded to the various types of housing capital programme in 1982–83; they spent more on rehabilitation than on any other type.