§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many council houses have been sold to former council tenants under the right-to-buy legislation; what percentage of the total council stock they represent; how many council houses were built by the local authority over the same period; and how many people are on council housing waiting lists for each local housing authority in the country.
§ Mr. ChopeA table showing each local authority's total sales under the right-to-buy legislation including the percentage of April 1979 stock sold was laid in the Library on 5 December 1989.
Reported annual housing completion figures for 1980 to 1987 appear in "Housebuilding in England by Local Authority Areas: 1980 to 1987". Figures for 1988 and the first quarter of 1989 are given in tables 1 (b) and 1(a), respectively, of issue 90 of "Local Housing Statistics". Copies of both publications are in the Library.
The numbers of households on waiting lists was reported by local authorities in their annual housing 321W investment programme returns (HIP1) and appears in column B51 of "HIP1 All Items Print (1989)". A copy of this document is in the Library.