HC Deb 20 October 1993 vol 230 c254W
Mr. Mike O'Brien

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what percentage of multiple occupation houses are classed as(a) unfit for human habitation and (b) substandard.

Sir George Young

The 1991 English house condition survey found 28 per cent. of multiple occupation houses, defined as dwellings in which facilities are shared by more than one household, unfit under section 604 of the Housing Act 1985, as amended by schedule 9 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989. Information on the percentage unfit under section 352 of this Act is not available.