§ Lord Lairdasked Her Majesty's Government:
What steps they are taking to improve the housing stock in Ballymagorry, County Tyrone. [HL4470]
§ Baroness AmosThe Northern Ireland Housing Executive has responsibility for 68 properties at 17 locations in the Ballymagorry area. Of these properties, eight at Station Road will be included in the programme of multi-element improvements scheduled for 2004 and 12 rural cottages are to be demolished with the land transferring to a housing association to build new houses. The remaining pre-1970s stock has already been modernised.
Improvements to private sector properties are carried out through grant aid, but information on the number of properties improved with the help of grant aid is only available by district council area and cannot be provided separately for Ballymagorry.