To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has on the number of people in private sector leasing provided by each local authority area (a) in the last quarter of 1990 and (b) in January 1991.

Local authorities reported the number of dwellings leased by them with an original lease of less than three years in their annual housing investment programme returns for 1 April 1990. The information appears in "1990 HIP1 All Items Print", column A81, a copy of which is in the Library. My Department has no information on the number of people occupying these dwellings.