§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has ever refused a local authority permission to transfer the management of part of its housing stock to tenant co-operatives.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will bring forward legislative proposals to give local authority tenants the right to manage all or part of their estates by tenant managment co-operatives.
§ Mr. GowWorkable agreements between local authorities and tenant management co-operatives require goodwill on all sides. A statutory right would be counter-productive; but I hope that all local authorities will consider most sympathetically suggestions made by tenants to secure better and more responsive management through co-operatives.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has to which local authorities have transferred part of the management of their housing stock to tenant co-operatives in the past 10 years.
§ Mr. GowAccording to my information, Birmingham city council, Rochdale borough council, the Greater London council, and the London boroughs of Haringey, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Wandsworth have transferred housing management functions for part of their stock to tenant co-operatives in the past 10 years.