HC Deb 27 April 1993 vol 223 c337W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 14 December 1992,Official Report, columns 57–60, if he will update the table on housing capital spending by region for 1992–93.

Mr. Baldry

[holding answer 26 April 1993]: The available information, which covers the first three quarters of 1992–93 only, is given in the table. The latest estimate for local authority housing capital expenditure for the whole of 1992–93 is£2. billion.

Local authority housing capital expenditure by region, April-December 1992.
£ million
Current prices 11981 prices
North (excluding Cumbria) 81 43
Yorkshire and Humberside 141 75
East Midlands 96 51
Eastern 138 74
Greater London 317 169
South East 177 94
South West 114 61
West Midlands 170 91
North West 237 126
Unallocated 61 32
1,532 817
1 Current price figures have been converted to 1981 prices by excluding the effect of general inflation as measured by the GDP market prices deflator.