To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what information he has on the proportions of housing association schemes which are represented by (a) rehabilitation work and (b) purchases of new-build schemes from builders; and whether there has been any change in each proportion over the past two years;(2) what is the percentage reduction in rehabilitation work undertaken by the Housing Corporation in 1989–90 in the south-west.
Relevant information available to the Secretary of State is set out in the table. It shows housing association rehabilitation work as a proportion of the Housing Corporation's programme of new approvals nationally and in its west region.No comparable information is currently available on the number of new-build schemes purchased by housing
| Year | All Housing £s | Rehabilitation £s | Rehabilitation as percentage of all | |
| West Region3 | 1987–881 | 56,963,843 | 19,108,904 | 33·5 |
| 1988–891 | 67,738,562 | 21,167,858 | 31·2 | |
| 1989–902 | 70,423,562 | 16,986,562 | 24·1 | |
| 1987–881 | 776,294,337 | 374,407,327 | 48·2 | |
| Total | 1988–891 | 885,089,043 | 371,755,120 | 42·0 |
| England | 1989–902 | 889,240,541 | 302,627,541 | 34·0 |
Notes:
1 Value of schemes approved
2 Value of funds allocated at beginning of 89–90—final scheme approvals will not be known until the end of 89–90
3 HC West Region includes counties of Avon, Berkshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire, Somerset and Wiltshire.