Council House Building Mrs. Renée Short asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many council houses have been built in each local authority in England and Wales in each quarter since January 1978 until the second quarter of the current year. Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg The information requested, up to the first quarter of 1980, appears in issues 46 to 54 of "Local Housing Statistics England and Wales", copies of which are in the Library. Corresponding figures for the first half of 1980 are expected to be published in November.