§ Mr. Peter ShoreTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the allocation to the London borough of Tower Hamlets under the housing investment programme in 1992; what is the estimate for 1993; and what have been the allocations in every year since 1979, in current and constant prices.
§ Sir George YoungThe information requested is given in the table. The figures for 1990–91 and subsequent years are not directly comparable with those for earlier years because of the revisions to the capital finance system introduced in April 1990.
Housing Investment Programme (HIP) allocations by Tower Hamlets Borough Council and capital expenditure, 1979–80 to 1993–94 £ thousand HIP allocations1 Housing capital expenditure Cash 1993–94 prices2 Cash 1993–94 prices2 1979–80 13,635 33,516 n/a n/a 1980–81 12,584 26,140 n/a n/a 1981–82 5,318 10,074 n/a n/a 1982–83 10,542 18,642 6,684 11,820 1983–84 12,000 20,282 9,856 16,658 1984–85 12,311 19,803 11,321 18,210 1985–86 11,644 17,760 12,011 18,320 1986–87 17,397 25,708 27,618 40,812 1987–88 19,587 27,437 29,150 40,832 1988–89 22,985 30,011 34,353 44,854 1989–90 20,448 25,052 121,378 148,707 New capital finance system3 1990–91 25,244 28,635 42,808 48,558 1991–92 21,439 22,800 435,505 437,758 1992–93 23,046 23,680 553,133 554,594 1993–94 23,982 23,982 n/a n/a 1 Allocations for the years up to and including 1989–90 are final allocations, i.e. the initial allocation plus any increases to the initial allocation made in-year. The allocations figures for 1990–91 and subsequent years are the HIP allocations—housing annual capital guidelines plus specified capital grants—issued prior to the start of the financial year. These figures do not include any supplementary credit approvals issued during the year. 2 Cash figures have been converted to 1993–94 price levels by excluding the effect of general inflation as measured by the GDP market prices deflator. 3 From 1990–91, under the new capital finance system, the HIP allocation is an assessment of relative need for housing capital expenditure rather than a direct borrowing approval. Borrowing approval is now conveyed by the single, all service, basic credit approval. 4 Provisional. 5 Estimated.
§ Mr. Peter ShoreTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many families were accepted as706W homeless in the London borough of Tower Hamlets in 1992 or the latest available date; and how many were similarly accepted as homeless in each year since 1979.
§ Sir George YoungLocal authorities report the number of households for whom they accept responsibility to secure permanent accommodation under the homelessness provisions of the housing acts in their quarterly P 1(E) returns.
The figures for acceptances reported by Tower Hamlets in the years 1979 to 1992 were as follows:
Year Reported acceptances 1979 687 1980 334 1981 332 1982 808 1983 189 (1) 1984 985 1985 1— 1986 1— 1987 654 (2) 1988 1,069 1989 884 1990 1,142 1991 542 (2) 1992 851 1 Not available. The figures exclude households found to be intenationally homeless from the second quarter of 1991. The figures for 1983, 1987 and 1991 are partial; the figures in brackets indicate the number of quarters for which information was reported.