First-time Buyers: Worcestershire
Communities and Local Government

Robin Walker (Worcester, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what information his Department holds on the number of house purchases by first time buyers in (a) Worcester and (b) Worcestershire in each of the last five years.

Grant Shapps (Minister of State (Housing and Local Government), Communities and Local Government; Welwyn Hatfield, Conservative)
The Department publishes statistics on the number of property transactions in each local authority in England based on data reported to the Land Registry, see live table 588 at:
This data does not record the type of purchaser.
