To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing the total cost of subsidies to local authority housing revenue accounts for each year from 1967–68, at 1987 prices (a) from the Exchequer and (b) from the general rate fund.

The annual cost of housing subsidy and of rate fund contributions for the years 1971–72 onwards (at prevailing prices) can be found in the White Papers "The Government's Expenditure Plans", starting in 1976–77.