HC Deb 07 February 1994 vol 237 cc77-8W
Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many council tenants received compensation in 1992–93 upon leaving their home for improvements made to it; and what was the total sum paid to them.

Sir George Young

Information on expenditure by local authorities under the existing discretionary power to make such payments, in section 100 of the Housing Act 1985, is not collected centrally. The Department proposes to monitor expenditure under the new right to compensation for tenants' improvements scheme being introduced on 1 April 1994, under section 122 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.