Housing

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To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at which locations the Rural Housing Association has schemes under construction; and at which locations the Rural Housing Association proposes new schemes for the remainder of the year 1993, 1994 and 1995.

The Rural Housing Association was registered in March 1992 and does not yet have any schemes under construction. It has, however, purchased nine houses under the special house purchase initiative announced in last year's autumn statement.The association has the following new-build schemes in its development programme:

Year	Eastern board		Northern board		Southern board		Western board
	Number	WTE¹	Number	WTE¹	Number	WTE¹	Number	WTE¹
District nurses
31 December 1992	473	363·74	150	134·12	161	126·40	125	98·85
31 December 1991	421	338·91	147	131·18	144	111·83	118	92·65
31 December 1990	344	289·80	154	139·50	87	71·17	116	96·24
Community midwives
31 December 1992	61	57·45	35	31·13	27	23·65	42	41·75
31 December 1991	57	55·95	38	34·16	17	14·39	47	46·50
31 December 1990	56	55·75	46	42·53	17	16·60	47	46·50
Health visitors
31 December 1992	231	205·03	92	86·73	90	82·87	78	71·26
31 December 1991	217	195·19	91	84·98	62	57·35	78	71·21
31 December 1990	121	114·14	91	85·47	61	55·31	80	73·63
Community psychiatric nurses
31 December 1992	107	104·03	20	20·00	39	39·00	28	28·00
31 December 1991	86	86·00	21	21·00	²—	²—	37	37·00
31 December 1990	80	80·00	12	12·00	²—	²—	36	36·00
¹ WTE = Whole-time equivalent
² Information not available

Volume 226: debated on Monday 7 June 1993