Local Authority Property Assets (Hansard, 23 February 1988)

HC Deb 23 February 1988 vol 128 c124W 124W

§ Mr. Heddle
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps he proposes to take to compel those local councils which are not using, under-using, inefficiently managing, or wasting £100 billion of assets, as identified in the recent Audit Commission report on local authority property assets, to dispose of those assets; and if he will make a statement.

§ Mr. Chope
I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that my hon. Friend the Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Mr. Trippier) gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Mr. Evans) on 17 February 1988 at column660.