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Mrs. Roe
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the number and percentage of all households accounted for by owner-occupiers in the United Kingdom; and what comparable information he has for other EC member states.
Sir George Young
[holding answer 29 June 1992]: Comparable figures for households are not available for EC countries, but the number of dwellings in owner occupation are given in the table.
| Stock of dwellings in owner occupation | ||
| 1990 | ||
| Thousand dwellings | Percentage of all dwellings | |
| Ireland | 21,005 | 81 |
| Greece | 53,999 | 79 |
| Spain | 16,287 | 76 |
| Luxembourg | 6138 | 68 |
| United Kingdom | 23,383 | 67 |
| of which England | 19,522 | 69 |
| Italy | 123,232 | 67 |
| Belgium | 43,997 | 65 |
| Portugal | 13,768 | 58 |
| France | 26,237 | 254 |
| Denmark | 12,353 | 51 |
| Netherlands | 15,802 | 45 |
| Germany (West) | 126,598 | 338 |
| Germany (East) | 17,003 | n/a |
| 1 1989 | ||
| 2 1988 | ||
| 3 1987 | ||
| 4 1985 | ||
| 5 1981 | ||
| 6 1980 | ||