§ Ms. GordonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what funds he has made available to enable London boroughs to buy back from right-to-buy owners houses found to have concrete cancer.
§ Mr. YeoAuthorities may choose whether to repurchase or repair dwellings designated under housing defects legislation. Annual housing investment programme HIP—allocations take account of numbers of unreinstated designated dwellings reported by authorities. Recently announced 1992–93 HIP allocations for London boroughs included £56.7 million for specified capital grants, of which £3.7 million was allowed for housing defects obligations. These are notional, indicative figures, and authorities may spend more, or less, according to their statutory obligations. Exchequer contributions are paid to meet 75 per cent of the net cost of repurchases or repairs.