HC Deb 24 July 1989 vol 157 cc470-1W
Mr. Soley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the local authorities currently in process of transferring their housing stock to housing associations under the Housing Act 1985.

Mr. Trippier

Broadland district council has applied to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for consent to dispose of its housing to a housing association.

I understand that Newbury district council and South Wight borough council have conducted ballots of their tenants about proposals to transfer housing to housing associations, but we have not received applications from those authorities. I am also aware that Medina borough council and Rochester-upon-Medway city council are in the process of balloting their tenants about proposals to transfer housing, in the latter case to an industrial and provident society.

Mr. Soley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the local authorities currently in process of transferring their housing stock under the tenants' choice provisions of the Housing Act 1985.

Mr. Trippier

Since April, one tenants' choice application has been served, on Westminster city council. Many other tenants' groups and potential new landlords are in preliminary discussions with the Housing Corporation.