§ Mr. Woodcockasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many prefabricated concrete houses which are to be subject to designation under the Housing Defects Bill are (a) owned by and (b) have been sold by the borough council of Ellesmere Port and Neston.
§ Mr. GowThe council has informed the Department in response to a letter of 18 February 1983 that it owned 1,140 houses of the Airey, Cornish unit and Wates type and that it had sold one house' of the Airey type. I understand from correspondence with my hon. Friend earlier this year that a house of the Wates type in the council's area is also in private ownership.