§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he expects each of Scotland's development corporations to cease letting their existing properties when they become vacant.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 21 February 1994]: In the period to their wind-up, development corporations will pursue their policies for letting vacant industrial and commercial properties and land until such time as there is an agreement for the sale or transfer of the property concerned. As to vacant housing, it is for each development corporation to decide in the period prior to the ballot of tenants whether to re-let the house or to sell it to a housing association or approved landlord as part of the corporation's initiatives to achieve diversification of tenure.
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