§ Lord Hyltonasked Her Majesty's Government:
What information they have about the numbers of dwellings built for Israelis and Palestinians respectively in the area administered by the Jerusalem municipality since 1967.
§ Baroness Chalker of WallaseyAccording to latest figures (1995), about 40,000 public and private housing units have been built in east Jerusalem for Israelis since 1967. There was none before. No public housing units have been built for Palestinians, but Palestinians have themselves built about 10,000. These are in addition to the pre-existing Palestinian housing stock in east Jerusalem of about 13,000 dwellings. About 25,000 housing units have been built for Israelis in west Jerusalem since 1967. These are in addition to the pre-existing Israeli housing stock of 58,000 units. None has been built for Palestinians in west Jerusalem. The total housing stock for Israelis in Jerusalem as a whole is thus about 123,000, and for Palestinians about 23,000. These figures are extracted from statistics published by Jerusalem municipality.