To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the average percentage rises in house prices, by region, annually in the last 10 years and the current average house price for each region.
The average annual percentage rises in house prices and the average house prices in the first quarter of 1988, the latest available period, are given in the following table.
Year
| Northern
| Yorks and Humberside
| East Midlands
| East Anglia
| Greater London
| South East
| South West
| West Midlands
| North West
| Wales
| Scotland
| Northern Ireland
|
| 1981 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 3 |
| 1982 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| 1983 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 8 |
| 1984 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| 1985 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
| 1986 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 22 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| 1987 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 19 | 24 | 22 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 5 |
Average House Prices(£)
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| 1988 Q1 | 28,699 | 29,091 | 35,269 | 48,961 | 69,289 | 64,933 | 50,146 | 34,884 | 30,685 | 29,358 | 26,808 | 28,951 |
| 1 Prices of building society mortgage completions. | ||||||||||||