HC Deb 31 October 1983 vol 47 c264W
Mr. Peter Bruinvels

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Leicester, East of 26 October concerning sales of council houses, how many of the dwellings sold (a) in the city of Leicester and (b) throughout the United Kingdom were houses and how many were flats.

Sir George Young

All the dwellings reported as sold by the city of Leicester in the first half of 1983 were houses. The earlier answer referred to by my hon. Friend gave an estimate of the number of dwellings sold by local authorities and new towns in Great Britain during the same period: of these 86,000 were houses and over 4,000 were flats.