Funding Of Local Authority Housing

EDM number 1203 in 1997-98, proposed by Stephen Hesford on 06/04/1998.

That this House notes that the Chartered Institute of Housing has estimated that there is a backlog of repairs for council housing of ú20 billion; and, whilst welcoming the Government's phased release of capital receipts, urges the Government to consider reviewing the current public accounting framework to place greater emphasis on the General Government Financial Deficit to allow local authorities to reorganise their housing functions to enable them to borrow private money to establish a level playing field between local authorities and housing associations, which are currently allowed to borrow private finance.

This motion has been signed by a total of 84 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.