asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will set out in tabular form the results of his Department's sample inquiry of builders' expectations of private housing starts for each of the last 10 years; and what was the actual outturn of private starts in each year.

Following are estimates from the inquiries made in or around April of each year and the outturn of starts:

Netherlands	0·54 per cent.
United Kingdom	0·34 per cent.
Luxembourg	Not Available
Ireland	Not Available

The 1974 figures should be available early next month. As I told my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley) on 19th May, the United Kingdom figure for 1974 was 0·38 per cent.