§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if, pursuant to the reply to the hon. Member for Mid-Kent (Mr. Rowe) on 28 January, Official Report, column 241, he will list the housing authorities which did not either make adaptations to the homes of people with disabilities in 1985–86 or support adaptations through improvement grants; and if he will make a further statement.
§ Mr. TraceyIt is for each housing authority to determine its own priorities for housing investment and to decide whether there is a need for purpose-built dwellings or for adaptations to existing dwellings to make them suitable for occupation by disabled people.
Programmes of adaptation and new build are best considered over a period of more than one year. Of the 12 authorities not covered by my reply of 28 January, 11 have reported action in the years 1984 to 1986, either through 241W new build, or by adaptations, or through improvement grants. One, Hillingdon borough council, has made no returns of housebuilding, renovation of its housing stock or improvement grants for several years.