To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what was the level of new starts in local authority housing annually, for the years 1980 to 1991;(2) what was the number of housing association new starts, annually, for the years 1980 to 1991.

Estimates of the numbers of new housebuilding starts by local authorities and by housing associations for 1980 to 1990 are published in table 6.1 of the annual publication "Housing and Construction Statistics 1980–1990: Great Britain". Provisional estimates for 1991 are shown in the quarterly publication "Housing and Construction Statistics; Part 1", in table 1.2 of the December quarter 1991 edition, No. 48.