HC Deb 30 June 1993 vol 227 cc519-20W
Mr. Duncan Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment which local authorities have sold off all their council housing stock.

Mr. Gummer

Twenty-three local authorities have, with the agreement of their tenants, disposed of the ownership of all or most of their housing stock through large-scale voluntary transfers to housing associations. Of these, the following fifteen have sold all their housing stock:

  • East Dorset DC
  • Hambleton DC
  • Medina BC
  • Mid Sussex DC
  • Newbury DC
  • North Bedfordshire BC
  • Ryedale DC
  • Sevenoaks DC
  • South Buckinghamshire DC
  • South Wight BC
  • Suffolk Coastal DC
  • Swale BC
  • Tonbridge and Mailing BC
  • Tunbridge Wells BC
  • West Dorset DC

The following eight local authorities have retained ownership of hostels or part shares in dwellings sold under shared ownership schemes:

  • Breckland DC
  • Broadland DC
  • Bromley BC
  • Chiltern DC
  • Christchurch BC
  • East Cambridgeshire DC
  • Rochester upon Medway CC
  • Surrey Heath BC

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