HC Deb 01 April 1980 vol 982 c187W
Mr. Pollock

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he intends to give further encouragement to his smallholding tenants to take advantage of their statutory rights to purchase their holdings.

Mr. Younger

To encourage applications from tenants of leasehold and land-hold units on my land settlement estates to buy their holdings I have decided that when I accept such an application I shall sell at 30 per cent. of the open market

Non-industrial industrial Total
£m. £m. £m.
1975–76 530 339 869
1976–77 557 374 931
1977–78 578 393 971
1978–79 615 421 1,036
1979–80* 604 417 1,021
* Forecast at 1978–79 prices.