Empty Housing

26.

Mr. Peter Morrison
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how  many local authority properties have been empty on 1st January for the last five years.

Mr. Freeson
The Department's relets surveys showed less than 1 per cent. of local authority dwellings vacant and available for letting at the end of each of the years 1970 to 1973. The figure for end-1974 is not yet available.