Local Authority House Building

HC Deb 26 May 1993 vol 225 cc615-6W

Mr. Skinner

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the latest figures for local authority house building.

Mr. Baldry

It is provisionally estimated that local authorities in England completed 300 new dwellings during the three months January to March 1993 and completed 3,000 dwellings during 1992.

Housing associations are now the main providers of new social housing. As I said in my answer of 19 May to the hon. Member for Dorset, West (Sir J. Spicer), Official Report, column 183, the Housing Corporation now estimates that public funds have enabled housing associations to make an extra 66,000 extra homes available to new tenants last year.