HC Deb 06 December 1982 vol 33 cc404-5W
Mr. Bowen Wells

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will now give town by town figures for sales of new town commercial and industrial property.

Sir George Young

I have now concluded that the new town disposals programme has reached the point where the levels of past disposals by each new town corporation can be released without jeopardising their negotiating positions. The information is as follows:

£ million
1979–80 1980–81 1981–82
Aycliffe 3.7 1.4 1.0
Basildon 8.8 5.5 1.1
Bracknell 6.0 15.5 32.5
Central Lancashire 2.3 0.9 0.7
Milton Keynes 3.3 7.2 6.0
Northampton 3.0 9.5 5.6
Peterborough 0.3 8.6 9.1
Peterlee 0.3 1.9 0.4
Redditch 3.3 5.1 9.1
Skelmersdale 0.0 0.1 0.5
Telford 0.3 2.7 3.6
Warrington and Runcorn 6.2 8.8 3.7
Washington 4.0 0.9 0.8
Corby 0.6 * *
Harlow 0.0 * *
Stevenage 1.3 * *
Commission for the new towns 5.7 34.7 59.4
Total 49.1 102.8 133.5

* Included in the figure for the Commission.