Right to Buy Scheme
Communities and Local Government
Written answers and statements, 4 June 2009
Grant Shapps (Shadow Minister (Housing), Communities and Local Government; Welwyn Hatfield, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many preserved Right to Buy sales there have been in each local authority area in each year since 1997.
Margaret Beckett (Minister of State (Housing), Department for Communities and Local Government; Derby South, Labour)
Figures for preserved right to buy (PRTB) sales are not available at individual local authority area. The following table shows the total number of PRTB sales by registered social landlords from 2000-01.
| Number of preserved right to buy sales, England | |
| Number of sales | |
| 2007-08 | 2,812 |
| 2006-07 | 3,910 |
| 2005-06 | 5,014 |
| 2004-05 | 7,331 |
| 2003-04 | 11,699 |
| 2002-03 | 8,858 |
| 2001-02 | 6,650 |
| 2000-01 | 5,211 |
| Note: Early figures on PRTB sales are not available from RSR returns. Source: Regulatory and Statistical Return by Registered Social Landlords. | |