§ Mr. FatchettTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the number and location of his Department's houses sold off on the last two years; if he will give(a) the name of the company which bought the houses, (b) the amount received by his Department for the sale of each house; and (c) what monitoring is carried on of the price at which the houses were subsequently sold on by estate agents; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. SoamesIn the last two years from 1 January 1993 to 31 December 1994 my Department sold the following dwellings:
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Number Location Purchaser 67 Aberdeen Aberdeen University 19 Abingdon Individual Purchasers 3 Abingdon Individual Purchasers 24 Alderton Individual Purchasers 30 Andover Individual Purchasers 19 Armagh Individual Purchasers 1 Aultbea Individual Purchaser 30 Barton Stacey Individual Purchasers 6 Barton Stacey Griffin and Tabb Ltd. 18 Basingstoke Individual Purchaser 1 Bath Individual Purchasers 48 Baughurst Individual Purchasers 3 Bedford Individual Purchasers 7 Beith Individual Purchasers 3 Benbecula Individual Purchasers 1 Benbecula Western Isles Island Council 1 Benbecula Highlands and Islands Fire Board 3 Benbecula Northern Joint Police Committee 1 Benbecula Property Holdings, Scotland 73 Biggin Hill Artesian Group of Companies 1 Boscombe Down Individual Purchaser 4 Bournemouth Mr. Richards 2 Bovington Individual Purchasers 68 Bramley Individual Purchasers 12 Bristol Haig Homes 5 Broughton Moor Individual Purchasers 20 Burghfield Individual Purchasers 5 Caerwent Individual Purchasers 10 Calcot Individual Purchasers 1 Cambridge Individual Purchaser
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Number Location Purchaser 32 Campsie Individual Purchasers 7 Cardington Individual Purchasers 2 Carlisle Individual Purchasers 66 Chatham London and Quadrant Housing Trust 7 Chatham Individual Purchasers 1 Chattenden Individual Purchaser 2 Cheadle Individual Purchasers 4 Chester Individual Purchasers 7 Chester Northern Counties Housing Association 1 Cobham Berkeley Homes 2 Cold Meece Individual Purchasers 15 Colerne Individual Purchasers 19 Colerne O'Kane Properties 16 Colerne Tyning Properties Ltd 3 Colerne Sanctuary Spiral Housing Association 3 Colerne/Durrington/Hullavington Brecks Property Co Ltd Hullavington 3 Corsham Individual Purchasers 2 Crombie Individual Purchasers 3 Dinton/Tisbury Hetton Properties Ltd 1 Dumfries Individual Purchaser 1 Dunfermline Individual Purchaser 1 Durrington Individual Purchaser 17 Edinburgh Individual Purchasers 3 Edinburgh Cairn Housing Association 2 Ely Individual Purchasers 3 Enfield Lock Individual Purchasers 4 Enford/Compton Individual Purchasers 3 Enniskillen Individual Purchasers 6 Eskmeals Individual Purchasers 2 Ewell Individual Purchasers 10 Exmouth Individual Purchasers 105 Farnborough Individual Purchasers 70 Felixstowe Orwell Housing Association 47 Felixstowe Individual Purchasers 119 Finningley South Yorkshire Housing Association 2 Formby Individual Purchasers 28 Garelochhead Individual Purchasers 24 Gosport Individual Purchasers 196 Gosport Barratt London Ltd 75 Gosport Ideal Homes 18 Gosport Portsmouth Housing Association 7 Great Broughton Individual Purchasers 1 Halton Heath Individual Purchaser 1 Hampton Magna Orbit Housing Association 2 Hampton Magna Individual Purchasers 4 Helensburgh Individual Purchaser 3 Helston Individual Purchasers 1 Hendon Tambarella Properties Ltc 1 Hereford Individual Purchaser 11 Houndstone Individual Purchasers 7 Inverness Individual Purchasers 34 Ipswich Individual Purchasers 1 Kings Lynn Individual Purchaser 6 Kirkcudbright Individual Purchasers 1 Lee on Solent Individual Purchaser 16 Liverpool Individual Purchasers 16 Liverpool Liverpool Housing Trust 6 Lovedean Arundel Estates 11 Lovedean Individual Purchasers 37 Lovedean Portsmouth Housing Association 10 Lower Quinton Individual Purchasers 1 Lower Quinton Orbit Housing Association 2 Lyneham Individual Purchasers
Number Location Purchaser 4 Maidstone Individual Purchasers 11 Malvern Individual Purchasers 41 Martlesham Heath Haymills (Contractors) Ltd 17 Newark C S H Finance Ltd 2 Newark Individual Purchasers 12 Newbury Individual Purchasers 1 Northfleet Individual Purchaser 12 Nythe Individual Purchasers 21 Padstow C S H Finance Ltd 19 Plymouth Individual Purchasers 170 Plymouth Wallsend Estates 26 Plymouth Devon and Cornwall Housing Association 54 Plymouth Plymouth Development Corporation 29 Poole Individual Purchasers 29 Portadown Individual Purchasers 36 Portland Individual Purchasers 66 Portsmouth Portsmouth Housing Association 3 Portsmouth Individual Purchasers 228 Portsmouth Messrs Pantheon 84 Portsmouth Swaythling Housing Association 12 Portsmouth Messrs Rendle and Pringle 1 Quedgely Individual Purchaser 6 Reading Individual Purchaser 2 Rochdale Individual Purchaser 56 Rosyth Individual Purchasers 16 Saxa Vord Shetland Islands Council 1 Sevenoaks Individual Purchaser 24 Shawbury Bromford Corinthian Housing Association 8 Shawbury Beth Johnson Housing Association 22 Shawbury Individual Purchasers 14 Shoeburyness Individual Purchasers 42 Shotley Gate Hodge and Co 24 Shotley Gate Haymills (Contractors) Ltd 52 Shotley Gate Individual Purchasers 3 Small Dole Individual Purchasers 1 Southwater Individual Purchaser 24 Stafford Individual Purchasers 5 Stockton Heath Individual Purchasers 1 Stornoway Individual Purchaser 3 Strood Individual Purchasers 2 Strood V Perry 33 Tadley Individual Purchasers 13 Tandragee Individual Purchasers 1 Tangmere Individual Purchaser 1 Thetford Individual Purchaser 26 Thurso Caithness District Council 38 Thurso Individual Purchasers 4 Tidworth Individual Purchasers 1 Tisbury Individual Purchaser 1 Waltham Abbey Individual Purchaser 1 Warton Individual Purchaser 1 Welford Individual Purchaser 5 Whitby Individual Purchasers 1 Woodford Green Individual Purchaser 30 Woolwich Giftboat Properties 8 Woolwich N H P Homes Ltd 80 Woolwich Brickstern Ltd 2 Wythenshaw Individual Purchasers Bulk sales are carried out by tender or at the district valuer's valuation to ensure that we receive a full market price.Individual purchasers include service personnel who have bought through the services' discount scheme,
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§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many service personnel houses have been sold by his Department in each of the last five years; and how much money was received for the sales in each of these years.
§ Mr. SoamesThe number of service married quarters sold and the capital receipts from these sales in each of the past five financial years was as follows:
Financial year Total sold Receipts £million 1989–90 1,380 46 1990–91 2,121 44 1991–92 1,306 51 1992–93 857 33 1993–94 1,254 24 Receipts do not always relate directly to the number of houses sold in a particular year because of stage payments and accounting procedures.