Housing Stock

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 May 1976.

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Photo of Mr Reginald Freeson Mr Reginald Freeson , Brent East 12:00, 26 May 1976

We are prepared to examine more efficient processing of CPOs in the Department. I shall examine that matter further. However, we must bear in mind that the vast bulk of houses purchased by local authorities under municipalisation and rehabilitation programmes are handled through negotiation. A small number indeed are the subject of CPOs—a matter of a few hundred compared with something like 17,000 to 20,000 purchased by negotiation. This matter is not as important in terms of policy as it may sometimes appear to be.