Council Housing (Hansard, 18 January 1994)

§ Mr. Battle
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many council leaseholders there are in each local authority.

§ Sir George Young
Information on the number of council leaseholders in each local authority is not held centrally.

§ Mr. Hardy
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the total number of applications for council housing now held by local authorities in England.

§ Sir George Young
Local authorities provide information on the numbers of households on their council housing waiting lists on their annual housing investment programme—HIP1—returns.
At 1 April 1993, the latest date for which figures are available, a total of 1,208,800 households were reported as being on council housing waiting lists in England.