§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many council tenants sought advice from their council about how to exchange their home with a tenant in a different local authority area in the six months from October 1991 to March 1992; and how many mutual exchanges took place in this period.
§ Mr. BaldryInformation is not collected centrally about the number of council tenants who seek advice from their local authority about exchanging their home.
Information about the number of mutual exchanges is reported by local authorities on their annual housing investment programme returns—HIP1. The latest available information records that 46,100 dwellings were let through mutual exchanges in the period 1 April 1990 to 31 March 1991.