HC Deb 24 January 1990 vol 165 c749W
53. Mr. Irvine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his latest estimate of the numbers of council tenants who have exercised the right to buy since 1980.

Mr. Chope

From October 1980 to September 1989 about 900,000 tenants purchased their homes from local authorities and new towns in England under the right-to-buy legislation.

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