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Mr. Raynsford
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table in the Official Report showing the total number of homes which he estimates were available to rent in England (a) from local authorities, (b) from housing organisations, (c) from other public authorities, (d) from private landlords, and (e) in total in each of the years from 1957 to 1986.
Mr. Tracey
The available estimates are :
| Stock of rented dwellings: England | ||||
| Thousands of dwellings | ||||
| LAs and NTs | Rented from HAs | Private owners and other tenures1 | Total rented stock | |
| April | ||||
| 1961 | 3,339 | 4,424 | 7,763 | |
| December | ||||
| 1966 | 4,016 | 3,683 | 7,699 | |
| 1967 | 4,145 | 3,569 | 7,714 | |
| 1968 | 4,267 | 3,455 | 7,722 | |
| 1969 | 4,390 | 3,354 | 7,744 | |
| 1970 | 4,506 | 3,202 | 7,708 | |
| 1971 | 4,587 | 3,122 | 7,709 | |
| 1972 | 4,605 | 3,013 | 7,618 | |
| 1973 | 4,635 | 2,911 | 7,546 | |
| 1974 | 4,743 | 2,811 | 7,554 | |
| 1975 | 4,872 | 2,707 | 7,579 | |
| 1976 | 4,990 | 2,619 | 7,609 | |
| 1977 | 5,096 | 2,547 | 7,643 | |
| 1978 | 5,157 | 2,476 | 7,633 | |
| 1979 | 5,187 | 2,404 | 7,591 | |
| 1980 | 5,171 | 2,341 | 7,512 | |
| 1981 | 5,117 | 411 | 1,876 | 7,404 |
| 1982 | 4,952 | 432 | 1,799 | 7,183 |
| 1983 | 4,837 | 451 | 1,726 | 7,014 |
| 1984 | 4,755 | 474 | 1,656 | 6,885 |
| 1985 | 4,677 | 493 | 1,587 | 6,757 |
| 19862 | 4,606 | 507 | 1,516 | 6,629 |
| 1 "Private owners and other tenures" include dwellings occupied by virtue of employment whether in public or private ownership, and before 1981 included housing associations. | ||||
| 2 provisional. | ||||
Note: For statistical purposes the stock estimates are expressed to the nearest thousand, but should not be regarded as accurate to the last digit. Estimates are based on data from the Censuses of 1961 to 1981 and those for the years before 1971 are not strictly comparable.