§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many appeals under the right-to-buy scheme have been made by Nottingham council tenants in each year since the scheme began; and in how many cases the valuation was reduced on appeal.
§ Mr. TrippierThe table gives, for each year since 1980, the number of tenants of Nottingham city council who applied for determination of the value of their homes by the district valuer under what is now section 128 of the Housing Act 1985 and the number of these cases in which the valuation was reduced:
Year Number of applications for determination Number of valuations reduced 1980 14 8 1981 12 5 1982 6 4 1983 2 2 1984 9 3 1985 19 n/a 1986 22 7 1987 6 3 19881 13 2 n/a—not available 1 To date