Council Housing: Sales
Communities and Local Government
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many council houses were sold in each year from 1979 to 1997.
Grant Shapps (Minister of State (Housing and Local Government), Communities and Local Government; Welwyn Hatfield, Conservative)
holding answer
Statistics on the number of sales of local authority owned properties are available on the Department’s website at:
Live table 648 shows local authority sales and transfers by district and table 670 shows local authority sales under right to buy from 1980.
Under this Administration, the additional properties that are sold under the revamped right to buy scheme will be replaced by new affordable homes.