§ Mr. Keith HillTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list for each local authority(a) total central Government funding in 1997–98 for registered social landlords' housing programmes, (b) the total number of new lettings that this funding will generate, (a) the estimated number of new lettings that registered social landlords will be able to provide with funding received in 1997–98 from local government and (d) the estimated number of new lettings that would be needed in order to achieve a national target of 60,000 new lettings annually; and if he will make a statement. [14628]
§ Mr. ClappisonThe Housing Corporation will publish in April full details by local authority area of its expenditure allocations for 1997–98 and the number of new lettings which this will generate under the approval development programme. In the meantime I have arranged for a summary table of expenditure allocations by local authority area to be placed in the Library of the House. My Department does not produce estimates by local authority area of the number of new lettings which registered social landlords will be able to provide with funding received from local government of the number of 99W new lettings which would be required in order to achieve a national figure of 60,000 new lettings annually. Over the decade 1991–92 to 2000–01 I expect new social lettings on current plans to be in the range of 58,000 to 60,000 per annum, in line with our estimates of housing need.