HC Deb 15 February 1983 vol 37 c103W
Mr. Proctor

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, of the 61,000 acres of unused public land owned by local authorities included in the vacant land registers at 1 July 1982, how much has now been sold.

Mr. Giles Shaw

Altogether some 6,000 acres of registered land were sold or brought into use by 1 January this year. The amount owned by local authorities will be ascertained in the current analysis of the returns for that date.