HC Deb 16 July 1990 vol 176 cc379-80W
Mr. Mallon

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the number of unfit dwellings in Northern Ireland, by district council area, in each year since 1980.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

The Housing Executive carried out a full house condition survey in 1984. The information for that year is as follows:

Number of unfit dwellings
District Number
Antrim 821
Ards 1,703
Armagh 1,515
Ballymena 1,682
Ballymoney 870
Banbridge 1,925
Belfast 12,885
Carrickfergus 2,166
Castlereagh 290
Coleraine 1,785

District Number
Cookstown 1,323
Craigavon 2,120
Derry 1,697
Down 1,838
Dungannon 1,932
Fermanagh 4,209
Larne 1,682
Limavady 961
Lisburn 1,921
Magherafelt 1,475
Moyle 862
Newry and Mourne 2,675
Newtownabbey 561
North Down 762
Omagh 2,168
Strabane 1,201