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Mrs. Brinton
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what assessment he has made of the rate of house building in (a) Scotland, (b) East Anglia and (c) Cornwall. [30597]
Mr. Raynsford
The Department and the Scottish Office monitor housebuilding activity in England and Scotland respectively. They collect information from local authorities about house building in their area, and in the case of England, this is supplemented with information from the National House Building Council. Recent figures for the three areas are shown in the table.
| House building: starts and completions: by sector | ||||
| Number of dwellings | ||||
| Private enterprise | Housing association | Public sector | Total | |
| Scotland1 | ||||
| Starts | ||||
| 1993 | 16,598 | 5,020 | 932 | 22,550 |
| 1994 | 19,449 | 4,879 | 776 | 25,104 |
| 1995 | 17,092 | 5,400 | 507 | 22,999 |
| 1996 | 15,759 | 4,664 | 104 | 20,527 |
| Completions | ||||
| 1993 | 17,711 | 2,723 | 958 | 21,392 |
| 1994 | 17,753 | 2,990 | 661 | 21,404 |
| 1995 | 18,329 | 5,003 | 1,173 | 24,505 |
| 1996 | 17,793 | 2,683 | 209 | 20,685 |
| East Anglia Starts | ||||
| 1993 | 8,237 | 1,484 | 91 | 9,812 |
| 1994 | 8,404 | 1,450 | 46 | 9,900 |
| 1995 | 7,135 | 1,354 | 9 | 8,498 |
| 1996 | 8,512 | 808 | 39 | 9,359 |
| 1997 | 8,650 | 905 | 0 | 9,555 |
| Completions | ||||
| 1993 | 8,528 | 1,230 | 195 | 9,953 |
| 1994 | 7,950 | 1,308 | 61 | 9,319 |
| 1995 | 7,635 | 1,600 | 44 | 9,279 |
| 1996 | 8,290 | 1,045 | 13 | 9,348 |
| 1997 | 8,364 | 768 | 2 | 9,134 |
| Cornwall Starts | ||||
| 1993 | 984 | 120 | 12 | 1,116 |
| 1994 | 504 | 120 | 0 | 624 |
| 1995 | 504 | 24 | 0 | 528 |
| 1996 | 456 | 180 | 0 | 636 |
| 1997 | 996 | 24 | 12 | 1,032 |
| Completions | ||||
| 1993 | 924 | 84 | 0 | 1,008 |
| 1994 | 672 | 396 | 0 | 1,068 |
| 1995 | 768 | 504 | 0 | 1,272 |
| 1996 | 1,008 | 72 | 0 | 1,080 |
| 1997 | 672 | 72 | 0 | 744 |
| 1 Figures for 1997 as a whole are not yet available for Scotland. | ||||