§ Mr. William Rossasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) how many Housing Executive dwellings there are in each of the local council areas of Londonderry, Limavady, Coleraine and Magherafelt;
(2) how many dwellings there are in the local council areas of (a) Londonderry, (b) Limavady, (c) Coleraine and (d) Magherafelt which are in need of improvement to bring them up to a proper standard; in each area how many of these are (i) owner-occupied, (ii) owned by the Housing Executive and (iii) private rented accommodation; and in each case how many are in a rural area and how many are urban dwellings.
§ Mr. David MitchellThis is a matter for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, but I understand from the chairman that the information as at December 1982 is as follows:
District council area Number of NIHE dwellings Londonderry 12,613 Limavady 3,309 Coleraine 6,112 Magberafelt 3,182 Up-to-date information on the number of unfit dwellings is not available, but the following table gives the most recent statistics as compiled for the house condition survey 1979 by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. A breakdown between urban and rural areas is not available.
period 1 January 1973 to 14 March 1983. They consisted of 2,425 rifles, 375 machine guns, 2,677 hand guns, 778 shotguns, 17 rocket launchers and 511 mortars.
The available records do not identify the other information sought.