HC Deb 24 February 1987 vol 111 cc196-7W
Mr. Alfred Morris

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish information on central Government expenditure on the housing investment programme for all years since 1978–79 inclusive, by standard United Kingdom region, showing the absolute, indexed and per capita from of the following disaggregated costs: (i) capital account costs and (ii) current account costs.

Mr. Tracey

The available information is for English local authorities' and new towns' housing and is given in the tables. For estimates for other parts of the United Kingdom, I refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland, for Wales and for Northern Ireland.

Region1 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86
East Midlands 15 15 15 14 13 14 14
East Anglia -19 18 17 17 16 18 17 16
South East 51 51 49 46 46 55 56 54
West Midlands 31 31 28 25 23 26 26 16
North West 46 48 47 43 42 47 48 29
England 114 173 167 154 150 173 173 125
(c) £ per capita2
North -1.70 2.30 2.70 2.60 2.80 3.70 3.90 3.00
East Midlands 2.00 2.40 2.80 2.90 3.00 3.30 3.30
East Anglia -5.30 5.90 6.60 7.10 7.30 8.20 8.20 8.30
South East 1.60 1.90 2.10 2.20 2.30 2.90 3.10 3.20
West Midlands 3.20 3.60 3.90 3.80 3.80 4.60 4.70 3.10
North West 3.80 4.50 5.30 5.40 5.70 6.60 7.10 4.50
England 1.30 2.30. 2.60 2.70 2.80 3.30 3.50 2.60
1 No new towns in Yorkshire and Humberside or South West regions.
2 Using total population of region.
3 Subsidy payments.