§ Mr. Scott-Hopkinsasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the number of council houses sold in the county of Derbyshire in each of the years since 1972, indicating what percentage this was of the county's total housing stock.
§ Mr. ArmstrongThe following table shows the number of council house sales reported by local housing authorities in the county of Derbyshire in each year between 1972 and 1978, and the percentages of those authorities' total housing stock which the sales represented. The figures exclude dwellings built expressly for sale or for equity sharing, and those for 1978 are provisional.
Number of sales Sales as a percentage of housing stock 1972 548 0.67 1973 556 0.66 1974 31 0.04 1975 10 0.01 1976 26 0.03 1977 297 0.32 1978 523 0.56