HC Deb 11 April 2000 vol 348 cc119-20W
Mr. Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when he expects to publish the housebuilding requirement figures for each of the English regions not already released. [118767]

Ms Beverley Hughes

Proposed housing provision figures have now been published by regional planning bodies for all the English regions, apart from the North West and the West Midlands which will follow later this year and in 2001 respectively. These proposals will be considered at public examinations into the draft Regional Planning Guidance. Subject to any proposed changes published by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, and consultation on those, final RPG will then be issued. The current target timetable for the publication of final RPG in each of these regions is as follows:

Region Target for issue of revised RPG
North East Summer 2001
East Midlands Summer 2001
South West Winter 2000–01
West Midlands Autumn 2002
Yorkshire and Humberside Summer 2001
North West End 2001

Mr. Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what analysis he has made of the age profile of those people likely to inhabit the new houses he has recently announced in the South East and East of England regions. [118766]

Ms Beverley Hughes

Table 4 (page 41) of the "Projections of households in England to 2021" (ISBN 1851123261) sets out the household projections for England by age, gender and marital status. A copy of this publication is in the Library.