§ Mr. GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many households were recorded on local authority housing waiting lists at a convenient date in each of the last five years in(a) Vale Royal and (b) Chester.
§ Mrs. RoeThe numbers of households on waiting lists at April, and the changes in the previous 12 months, appear in columns B51 and B53, respectively, of the 1986 and 1987 Housing Investment Programme "All items prints", which are available in the Library. Information for earlier years is not available centrally.
The figures reported by Chester district council in their 1986 return included transfer list cases; excluding these cases, the numbers on the waiting list in 1985 and 1986 were, respectively, 4,940 and 2,962.
648WLocal authorities' criteria for inclusion of names on the waiting lists are not uniform and the frequency of reviewing the lists varies.