§ Mr. CorbettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will give the number and type of defective properties in each of the 75 local authorities, by name, which were given additional housing investment programme resources of £20 million under housing defects legislation on 12 May; and what is the number and type of defective properties still in the ownership of each of these local authorities.
§ Mrs. RoeThis is not readily available. We are updating the information, in the House Library, on the distribution of properties designated under the housing defects legislation, broken down by local authority and property type. I shall let the hon. Gentleman know as soon as that work has been completed. Meanwhile, the House Library contains local authorities' own HIP returns for 1987, giving total numbers of designated properties in local athority and private ownerships, though these figures are not broken down by house type.