Children And Youth Action Groups (Research Programme)

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asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will now reply to the letter of 24th January from Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. Satterthwaite, OBE, Director and General Secretary of the National Playing Fields Association, requesting the precise terms of reference for the information and research programme

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE HOUSING INQUIRY: EXPECTED AND ACTUAL PRIVATE SECTOR DWELLING STARTS, GREAT BRITAIN
Thousand dwellings
		1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975
Date of inquiry		May	May	April	April	April	April	April	April	April	April	March
Expected starts		248	220	222	205	190	170	200	225	250	155	135
Actual starts	…	211	193	234	200	167	165	207	227	215	105	—

Estimates from inquiries at other dates appear in Table 19(

a) of Housing and Construction Statistics (HMSO) for the years from 1968 and for earlier years in Housing Statistics (HMSO): copies are available in the Library.

Builders' expectations at any particular time are, of course, conditioned by the prevailing circumstances, which may subsequently change.

Volume 892: debated on Tuesday 20 May 1975