Statistics on Housing Starts

Part of Orders of the Day — Housing Bill – in the House of Commons at 8:45 pm on 19 May 1980.

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Photo of Mr Anthony Durant Mr Anthony Durant , Reading North 8:45, 19 May 1980

I happen to know that the right hon. Gentleman's adviser is a councillor from my constituency. That is probably why the right hon. Gentleman has the figures. The situation is that the authority is able to complete its existing programme. What happens afterwards is a different story. It is not felt that there is need for a great expansion in building for council housing in our area once that programme is completed. It is a policy matter for the council.

We need to move much more into the development of housing associations. One of our basic troubles is that we have concentrated too much on public sector housing and not sufficiently on housing association type development.