§ Mr. Raynsfordasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing the total number of council dwellings coming into management, including newly built, acquired, modernised or converted dwellings, for each of the standard regions and for England in the years 1983–84 and 1984–85, with an estimate for 1985–86 and 1986–87.
§ Sir George YoungThe aggregates of figures supplied by local authorities in their 1984 and 1985 housing investment programme returns are as follows. The authorities are not asked to submit forward estimates, nor are any estimates made by my Department.
Dwellings coming into local authority management Region April 1983 to March 1984 April 1984 to March 1985 North 3,754 4,334 Yorkshire and Humberside 4,273 4,313 East Midlands 3,787 3,279 East Anglia 1,440 1,794 South East: Greater London 7,801 6,629 Rest 8,164 8,885 South-West 3,467 3,540 West Midlands 3,359 3,535 North-West 5,408 5,063 England 41,453 41,372
§ Mr. Raynsfordasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the value of the Exchequer subsidies and rate fund contributions, respectively, to English local authority housing revenue account dwellings in total and on a per dwelling basis for the years 1978–79 to 1985–86 with an estimate for 1986–87.
Special grants Repairs grants Mandatory to private landlords and HAs To private landlords and HAs All grants Mandatory grants Number of houses Number of dwellings 1981* 280 610 4,889 450 1982 1,000 3,140 28,696 1,780 1983 1,100 9,310 113,065 4,200 1984 1,600 13,200 116,146 5,760 1985† 1,750 10,440 55,479 6,390 Mandatory special and repairs grants were introduced by the Housing Act 1980. * April to December. † Provisional.