HC Deb 14 December 1988 vol 143 cc626-7W
81. Mrs. Clwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give the latest figures for mortgage repossessions(a) for owner-occupiers as a whole and (b) for former council tenants who have exercised the right to buy.

Mr. Trippier

Building societies took 9,770 properties into possession in the first six months of 1988, a fall of 13 per cent. compared with the previous six-month period. Statistics available do not distinguish between houses bought under the right to buy and others.