§ Mr. Thorntonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list for each London borough (a) the total starts and completions of council dwellings between 1979 and 1984, (b) the total sales of council dwellings between 1979 and 1984 and (c) the recorded levels of homelessness in each borough in 1979 and 1984.
§ Sir George YoungThe numbers of house building starts and completions reported by each of the London boroughs for 1979 appear in issue 59 of "London Housing Statistics", for the years 1980 to 1983 in issue 73 and for 1984 in issue 74. Reported numbers of households666W accepted as homeless during 1979 are in issue 54 and during 1984 in issues 72 and 74. Copies of these publications are in the Library.
Following are the total sales of council dwellings reported by authorities in London for the period April 1979 to March 1985:
Total sales of council dwellings in London April 1979 to March 1985 Number Greater London Council 15,065 City of London 635 Barking and Dagenham 4,989 Barnet 2,995 Bexley 1,896 Brent *1,096 Bromley 3,597 Camden 450 Croydon 3,515 Ealing *3,453 Enfield 3,159 Greenwich 1,922 Hackney *412 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,375 Haringey 1,552 Harrow 1,316 Havering 4,431 Hillingdon *3,599 Hounslow 1,965 Islington *742 Kensington and Chelsea 527 Kingston upon Thames 1,201 Lambeth *1,024 Lewisham *1,770 Merton 2,656 Newham *2,794 Redbridge 2,252 Richmond upon Thames 1,183 Southwark 1,170 Sutton 1,598 Tower Hamlets *472 Waltham Forest *1,838 Wandsworth 7,006 Westminster *982 * Reports of sales incomplete