§ Mr. Higginsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will compare the figures for public expenditure and the public sector borrowing requirement in each year since the policy of council house sales was introduced, with figures showing what public expenditure and the public sector borrowing requirement would have been from such sales and other local authority capital receipts if the proceeds had been spent in the year in which they were received.
§ Mr. LawsonDetailed information is not available about the amount of capital receipts unspent by local authorities in individual years. It is therefore not possible to make this comparison.