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Mr. Cox
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many local authority permanent dwellings have been started in the 32 London boroughs in each year since 1979.
Mr. Yeo
The information requested for 1979 is shown in table 5 of the publication "Local Housing Statistics: England and Wales", issue No. 53 (May 1980). Figures for 1980 to 1989 appear in "Housebuilding in England by Local Authority Areas, 1980 to 1989", tables 1.1 to 1.10. Figures for 1990 are in "Local Housing Statistics: England and Wales", issue No. 98 (July 1991). The following information is available on local authority housebuilding in 1991:
| Local authority | |
| (a) Authorities with local authority housing starts in 1991 | Barking 10 dwellings Barnet 4 dwellings Kensington and Chelsea 4 dwellings Waltham Forest 88 dwellings |
| (b) Authorities with no local authority housing starts in 1991 | Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Havering, Hounslow, Islington, Redbridge, Sutton, Wandsworth, Westminster |
| (c) Authorities which have not yet sent returns for all, or part, of 1991. No authority reporting for part of 1991 has recorded any local authority housing starts | Bexley, Brent, Enfield, Haringey, Hillingdon, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Tower Hamlets |