HC Deb 06 February 1985 vol 72 c622W
Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether it is Government policy that former tenants who have bought council houses and cannot keep up their mortgage payments should resell their house to the council or sell on the open market.

Sir George Young

If a former council tenant has a mortgage from the local authority and is in default, the authority may repurchase the dwelling by agreement. In other cases special consent from the Department is needed. We want to see the development of a normal market in former local authority dwellings.