§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to propose amendments to housing law such that all local authority tenants entitled to the right-to-buy, who are offered transfers to an assured tenancy with a housing association, must be informed of their loss of entitlement to the right-to-buy on acceptance of such a transfer, and must be financially compensated if information on the loss of right-to-buy entitlement is not provided by the housing association prior to the signing of their transfer acceptance; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Yeo[holding answer 17 January 1992]No. Local authority tenants whose homes are transferred to a housing association have their right to buy preserved. A local authority tenant who moves to a different property owned by a housing association will be offered an assured tenancy which does not carry the right to buy, but the tenants guarantee issued by the Housing Corporation under section 36A of the Housing Associations Act 1985 calls on the association to explain this.