asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report those local authorities which have not yet initiated homesteading schemes.

The latest available information on homesteading—sale for improvement by purchaser—is set out in Local Housing Statistics, vol. 63—table 5(b) pages 44–52—published by the Government Statistical Service in November 1982, a copy of which is in the Library. This lists the 75 authorities in England which had sold houses under a homesteading scheme in 1981–82 and the authorities that had not at that time done so.