HC Deb 08 March 1983 vol 38 cc358-9W
Mr. Race

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will state the number of Airey and Orlit houses in each of the London boroughs by tenure and the number of such houses which have been sold from the public sector into owner-occupation in each of the last five years.

Mr. Stanley

The following three London borough councils have given the following statistics on the Airey houses in their boroughs:

Local authority owned Owned by private owners or other public bodies
Harrow 107 4
Havering 17 11
Redbridge 200 190

Otherwise the information requested by the hon. Member is not currently available. On Orlit houses, the Department wrote to all local housing authorities on 18 February asking them to provide information about such houses and other prefabricated reinforced concrete houses which were built in their areas between the wars and during the 1940s and 1950s. Copies of letters sent to local authorities have been placed in the Library.