§ Mrs. Ann Taylorasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the information on defective housing recently supplied by local authorities and local authority associations to the Building Research Establishment.
§ Mr. StanleyIf the hon. Member is referring to the request by the establishment's defects prevention unit on 23 February for information from housing authorities about technical problems found in the existing public sector stock in the past year, I can tell him that this is a general inquiry and the responses received will not be in a form suitable for publication. However, information derived from those responses is likely to determine topics and priorities in the unit's series of defect action sheets.
269WIf the hon. Member is referring to the specific subject of prefabricated reinforced concrete houses, BRE asked authorities on 25 February for information to supplement that which the Department had sought in a letter dated 18 February, a copy of which is in the Library. As I said in the House on 8 February, I intend to make the technical information from the investigation widely available.