§ Mr. George Robertsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many of the sales referred to in his reply to the hon. Member for Hamilton, 24 January, Official Report, column 539, took place after May 1981; and of those how many were handled by estate agents.
§ Mr. AncramThirty-seven of the sales, most of which were of small areas of land to adjoining proprietors and of 133W properties to sitting tenants took place after May 1981. None of these sales was handled by estate agents but advice was taken from the valuation office of the Inland Revenue.