To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many planning applications for house building have been made to the Peak park planning board; how many have been successful; and how many have been for starter homes and how many for family residences.

Since April 1984, the Peak park joint planning board has dealt with 1,110 planning applications for house building, of which 11 were for starter homes. A total of 626 applications (56·4 per cent.) were approved including six for starter homes. No records are kept of the number of family residences involved in the applications.