HC Deb 25 May 1995 vol 260 cc777-8W
Dr. Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the West Midlands housing corporation cash allocations for 1995–96 and each of the previous five years broken down into(a) regional cash limit, (b) new rent allocations, (c) new sale allocations, (d) new do-it-yourself sale allocations and (e) rehabilitation-renovation with an indication as to the proportion of these allocations that are within (i) the west midlands metropolitan area and (ii) Birmingham. [24593]

Mr. Robert B. Jones

The table shows the housing corporation allocations in 1995–96 and each of the previous five years, by the headings requested, for the corporation's west midlands region; and how much of these were allocated to Birmingham and the west midlands metropolitan area, which has been taken to be Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. The allocations represent housing corporation resources going into new housing association scheme starts whilst the cash limit represents expenditure on new and existing schemes.

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