§ Mr. Heddleasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many residential properties owned by each of the local authorities in the West Midlands county have been purchased by the local authority's tenants since the enactment of the Housing Act 1980 to the latest date for which figures are available; how many sales have reached (a) the stage of contracts having been exchanged but not completed and (b) completion stage; and what percentage of the total housing stock these figures represent in the case of each local authority;
(2) how many residential properties owned by each of the local authorities in Staffordshire were purchased by the local authority's tenants since the enactment of the Housing Act 1980 to the latest date for which figures are available; how many sales have reached (a) the stage of contracts having been exchanged but not completed and (b) completion stage; and what percentage of the total housing stock these figures represent in the case of each local authority.
§ Mr. StanleyFor information on sales in progress under the right-to-buy provisions of the Housing Act 1980, I refer my hon. friend to the answer my right hon. Friend gave to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Ardwick (Mr. Kaufman) on 10 April.—[Vol. 2, c. 381.]
Figures giving reported numbers of completed sales of local authority houses, including all voluntary sales, in October to December 1980 and as a percentage of the total HRA housing stock are as follows: 195W
Reported sales of existing dwellings October to December 1980 Percentage of HRA housing stock West Midlands County Birmingham 1,234 0.8 Coventry 2 0 Dudley 27 0.1 Sandwell 1 0 Solihull 58 0.9 Walsall 180 0.4 Wolverhampton * * Staffordshire Cannock Chase 0 0 East Staffordshire 24 0.3 Lichfield †32 †0.4 Newcastle under Lyme 5 0 Stafford * * South Staffordshire * * Staff Moorlands 39 0.8 Stoke on Trent 0 0 Tamworth 75 0.9 * Returns not yet received. † April to December 1980 information.