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Mrs. Renée Short
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what were the number of new construction orders in the private and public sectors for housing
| VALUE AT CONSTANT PRICES OF NEW CONSTRUCTION ORDERS OBTAINED BY CONTRACTORS: GREAT BRITAIN | |||||||
| £ million, 1975 prices, seasonally adjusted | |||||||
| New housing | Other new work | ||||||
| Public | Private | Public | Private industrial | Private commercial | |||
| January-September 1978 | … | … | 745 | 1,024 | 1,424 | 787 | 871 |
| January-September 1979* | … | 537 | 926 | 1,446 | 770 | 785 | |
| * Provisional figures for August and September 1979. | |||||||