Public Sector Housing (Hansard, 27 June 1984)

§ Mr. Fatchett

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what has been the value of discounts per year in Northern Ireland on the sale of public sector housing since the policy of house sales was introduced;

(2) what surveys have been undertaken by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to establish priority estates; what factors were taken into consideration in defining a priority estate; and what conditions must be fulfilled before they are declared;

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(3) what are the names of the priority estates which the Northern Ireland Housing Executive has identified; how many houses and flats each estate contains; and in which year the estate was constructed;

(4) what are the occupancy rates in each of the priority estates identified by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive; what is the dwelling type mix of each priority estate; what is the family type mix; in what percentage of households the head of household is unemployed in each estate; what percentage of households are in receipt of housing benefit in each estate; what is the percentage of dwellings which have been purchased by sitting tenants in priority estates; and how all these factors compare with those for non-priority estates;

(5) what schemes the Northern Ireland Housing Executive has planned for each priority estate identified by the executive; and how much money has been earmarked for each estate;

(6) if the Northern Ireland Housing Executive employs a special staff in priority estates; and how many are employed in each estate;

(7) which organisations the Northern Ireland Housing Executive is funding to work in priority estates; and how much money has been allocated to each group;

(8) what consultation arrangements the Northern Ireland Housing Executive has made with local tenants' associations in each priority estate to involve them in these schemes; and what management structures have been devised for workers in priority estates.