HC Deb 18 January 1990 vol 165 cc361-2W
Mr. William Powell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many council house properties were sold by(a) Corby district council and (b) the New Towns Commission in the Corby district since April 1979;

(2) which local authorities have sold 30 per cent. or more of their council house stock since April 1979.

Mr. Chope

Between April 1979 and June 1989 Corby district council has reported the sale of 5,338 dwellings and the New Towns Commission sales of 12 dwellings in Corby. Corby district council has not yet submitted the return for September 1989.

In England 61 authorities have reported sales of 30 per cent. or more of their council house stock between April 1979 and September 1989. These authorities are listed below. In addition three authorities have recently transferred their complete stock to housing associations: Chiltern (in December 1988), Sevenoaks (March 1989) and Newbury (December 1989).

I have today laid a table in the Library giving available information on local authority sales up to September 1989. It shows year-by-year information for each authority since 1984–85 together with cumulative figures since April 1979 and the proportion of their stock sold since April 1979.

Authorities reporting sales of 30 per cent. or more of their stock between April 1979 and September 1989

  • Arun
  • Aylesbury Vale
  • Bournemouth
  • Bracknell Forest
  • Breckland
  • Bromley
  • Bromsgrove
  • Broxbourne
  • Broxtowe
  • Castle Point
  • Cherwell
  • City of London
  • Corby
  • Crawley
  • Dacorum
  • Daventry
  • Dover
  • East Hampshire
  • East Hertfordshire
  • Eastleigh
  • Eden
  • Epping Forest
  • Fareham
  • Fenland
  • Forest Heath
  • Fylde
  • Gelding
  • Havant
  • Havering
  • Huntingdonshire
  • Kingswood
  • Knowsley
  • Melton
  • Mendip
  • Poole
  • Ribble Valley
  • Rochester upon Medway
  • Rochford
  • Rushcliffe
  • Sedgemoor
  • South Herefordshire
  • South Lakeland
  • South Northamptonshire
  • Spelthorne
  • Surrey Heath
  • Tandridge
  • Teignbridge
  • Test Valley
  • Torbay
  • Torridge
  • Wandsworth
  • Wansdyke
  • Wealden
  • Welwyn Hatfield
  • West Devon
  • West Oxfordshire
  • Weymouth and Portland
  • Woking
  • Woodspring
  • Wychavon
  • Wycombe