§ Mr. CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the average levels of council rent in each London borough at constant prices for each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Robert B. JonesI have today placed in the Library a table showing the average weekly local
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Total stock at 1 April 1994 Empty at 1 April 1994 Empty as percentage of total stock Target for reduction of number of empty properties held at 1 April 19941 Department of Transport 3,845 887 23 484 Home Office 4,5242 498 11 335 Ministry of Defence 68,106 11,006 16 3.5503 Department of Health 15,0004 1,8005 12 700 Scottish Office 1,6016 158 10 60 Welsh Office 239 437 18 37 Notes: 1 Includes properties to be sold, leased or reoccupied. 2 Excludes figures for the provincial police authorities. 3 Targets relate to stock figures at 1 April 1994. More properties will become empty during the year as others are occupied or disposed of. 4 Most up-to-date figures available are as at 31 December 1992. 5 Excludes bed-spaces in hostels. 6 NHS figures included in the stock are as at 1 April 1993. 7 Excludes properties awaiting demolition or conversion to non-residential use. authority rents for each London borough for the financial years 1988–89 to 1994–95, expressed in constant prices. Information for earlier years could be provided only at disproportionate cost.