To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing the amount of grant paid and the number of organisations grant-aided under section 50 of the Housing Act 1988 for each financial year since enactment, including the amount available in the current financial year.

The Housing Corporation grant under section 50 of the Housing Act 1988 was as follows:

	£
1989–90	1,220,458,374
1990–91	1,738,092,695
1991–921	2,228,375,000
1 Provisional.

The total number of housing associations which are paid grants each year is not held by the Department. I have therefore asked the corporation to respond to the hon. Member direct. The subsequent reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing the amount of grant paid and the number of organisations grant-aided under section 87 of the Housing Associations Act 1985 for each financial year since enactment, including the amount available in the current financial year.

I believe that the hon. Member is referring to the programme of promotional and advisory grants administered by the Housing Corporation under, principally, section 87 of the Housing Associations Act 1985. The level of the corporation's programme, financed by grant-in-aid from the Department, has been as follows for the years in question:

	£000s
1985–86	342·1
1986–87	509·7
1987–88	472·3
1988–89	586·3
1989–90	1,109·0
1990–91	2,699·5
1991–92	3,702·0

Decisions on the allocation of funds to particular organisations and projects are entirely a matter for the Housing Corporation. I have therefore asked the corporation to write to the hon. Member about the number of organisations which have received grant.