§ Mr. Eldon Griffithsasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many council houses have been sold to their tenants by the district councils of (a) St. Edmundsbury, (b) Forest Heath and (c) Mid-Suffolk; and what is the proportion of homes sold to the total housing stock of each authority.
§ Sir George YoungThe figures reported by these authorities are as follows:
All Council House Sales April 1979 to March 1980 April 1980* to June 1982 Total as percentage of stock at 1 April 1981 Forest Heath 107 339 8.6 Mid-Suffolk 27 363 7.1 St. Edmundsbury 31 735 7.5 * Of these sales all but 2 in Mid-Suffolk and 65 in St. Edmundsbury were to sitting tenants. This information was not collected before April 1980.