HC Deb 19 December 1995 vol 268 c1074W
Ms Mowlam

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of the population of Northern Ireland live in(a) public and (b) private housing. [6529]

Sir John Wheeler

The 1991 census of population shows that 70 per cent. of the Northern Ireland population live in private housing and 28 per cent. in public housing. The remaining 2 per cent. of the population mostly live in communal establishments.