§ Mr. Mellorasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the authorities with whom his Department has taken up formally their rate of progress in implementing the right to buy.
§ Mr. StanleyI refer my hon. Friend to the answers I gave to my hon. Friends the Members for Reading, North 475W (Mr. Durant), for Burton (Mr. Lawrence), and for Newark (Mr. Alexander), on 4 March and to my hon. Friend the Member for Reading, North on 1 April. Since then the Department has also taken up formally with the following authorities their rate of progress in implementing the right to buy: Birmingham, Blyth Valley, Brent, Burnley, Darlington, Gateshead, Haringey, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Norwich, St. Helens and Tower Hamlets.—[Vol. 1000, c. 268–70Vol. 2, c.104.]