§ Mr. Bob Dunnasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report the number of council and new town houses sold to sitting tenants since May 1979.
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§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergInformation is not collected on sales to sitting tenants only, but on all sales and leases of dwellings by housing authorities whether to sitting tenants or others. It is collected only on a quarterly basis. Between April and December 1979—the latest date for which reliable information is available—sales or leases of existing dwellings by English local authorities and new towns were estimated to be 29,375, excluding sales under shared ownership arrangements. This figure includes 710 council flats.