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Housing Starts

Volume 178: debated on Monday 29 October 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will state the number of public sector housing starts in 1978 and so far in 1990;(2) if he will state the number of housing association starts in 1978 and so far in 1990.

The latest estimates for starts by housing associations and local authorities, new towns and Government Departments, for 1980 to August 1990, appear in tables 1 and 2 of the housebuilding press release (No. 548) issued by the Department on 5 October. Corresponding figures for 1978 and 1979 appear in table 6.1 of "Housing and Construction Statistics 1978–1988: Great Britain". Copies of both are in the Library.