§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will indicate for each district council in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire, the total number of local authority dwellings sold, to date, to sitting tenants; and, where the figure is nil, what progress has been notified to his Department of the anticipated date of implementation of such a scheme, in accordance with the Housing Act 1980.
§ Mr. StanleyInformation at present collected by the Department does not distinguish between local authority disposal of existing dwellings to sitting176W tenants and to other purchasers. District councils in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire report disposals of existing dwellings—excluding disposals under shared ownership arrangements—during the period April 1979-June 1980, the latest date for which such information is available, as follows:
Dwellings sold Dorset Bournemouth 229 Christchurch * North Dorset 84 Poole 136 Purbeck * West Dorset 0 Weymouth and Portland 124 Wimborne 132 Hampshire Basingstoke and Deane * East Hampshire 94 Eastleigh 423 (April 1979-March 1980 only) Fareham 61 Gosport 92 Hart 0 Havant 121 New Forest 0 Portsmouth 639 (April 1979-March 1980 only) Rushmoor 136 Southampton 539 Test Valley 149 Winchester * Wiltshire Kennet 4 North Wiltshire 254 Salisbury 0 Thamesdown 63 West Wiltshire 97 (April-June 1980 quarter only) NOTE: * = Not available. The right-to-buy provisions of the 1980 Housing Act have been in operation only since 3 October and no figures for sales completed under the right to buy are yet available.