§ Mr. Simon Hughesasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the 377W conclusions of the Royal Institute of British Architects' publication "Local Authority Housing Repair and Maintenance Needs", a copy of which he has received, which relates to matters within his responsibility.
§ Sir George YoungI read this report with great interest.
My Department is now processing local authorities' responses to our own recent inquiry into the repair and improvement needs of local authority housing stock; we hope that first results will be available by the end of this month. It will be useful to compare RIBA's findings with our own.