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Mr. Frank Allaun
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will undertake a survey of the proportion of manpower, money and materials devoted to housing in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and other industrial countries.
Mr. Freeson
Following are figures available from various countries of gross fixed capital formation in dwellings, expressed as a proportion of gross national product; but the United Kingdom figure includes less of the capital expenditure on improvement and extension than those for other countries:
| 1972 | 1973 | |
| United Kingdom | 3·4 | 3·7 |
| Belgium | 4·7 | —* |
| France | 6·7 | 6·7 |
| Germany, Federal Republic | 6·5 | —* |
| Ireland | 5·0 | —* |
| Italy | 5·8 | 6·2 |
| Netherlands | 6·3 | 6·3 |
| Norway | 5·3 | —* |
| Sweden | 4·8 | —* |
| U.S.A. | 4·6 | —* |
| *Not available. | ||