§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many local authority dwellings in the constituency of Macclesfield currently require major repairs.
§ Mr. StanleyThough in the 1981 English house condition survey information was collected to enable an estimate to be made of the number of local authority dwellings in England requiring repairs costing £7,000 or more, the sample size for this survey does not enable the national estimate to be disaggregated reliably into results for individual local authorities. However, in its latest HIP return Macclesfield council stated that it had 1,226 local authority non-substandard dwellings in need of renovation. These dwellings are defined in the HIP return as those which are neither unfit nor lacking basic amenities, but which nevertheless are regarded as unsatisfactory and in need of capital expenditure of more than £2,500.