Housing Statistics

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 January 1985.

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Photo of George Young George Young Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Environment) 12:00, 9 January 1985

That is a rather naive question, because it does not take into account the age of the stock that we are considering. The rate of demolition has been falling for a number of years, not least because local authorities perceived the social damage that resulted from wholesale demolition in the 1960s. Under this Government the rate of demolition has continued to decline, but there has been a dramatic escalation in expenditure on improvement grants. Those trends should be commended rather than deplored.