HC Deb 01 March 1999 vol 326 c523W
Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what assessment he has made of the incidence of elderly people living alone because their extended families have moved elsewhere due to the lack of local affordable housing. [73164]

Mr. Raynsford

My Department has made no specific assessment of this issue. Indeed, given the number of factors likely to affect the decisions of individual households, it is difficult to envisage any meaningful conclusions arising from any such assessment.