To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 14 December 1992, Official Report, columns 57–60, if he will update the table on housing capital spending by region for 1992–93.

[holding answer 26 April 1993]: The available information, which covers the first three quarters of 1992–93 only, is given in the table. The latest estimate for local authority housing capital expenditure for the whole of 1992–93 is£2· billion.