HC Deb 25 January 1995 vol 253 c207W
Ms Coffey

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many tenants have bought their homes under the right-to-buy scheme; and how many subsequently sold their homes(a) in total and (b) in Stockport.

Mr. Robert B. Jones

Between October 1980 and September 1994 over 1.2 million tenants of local authorities and new towns in England purchased their homes under the right-to-buy legislation. Of these, some 3,500 sales were to local authority tenants in Stockport metropolitan borough council.

Information on housing association sales at local authority level is not available; sales for the country as a whole are estimated to be almost 27,000.

Data on subsequent sales by former tenants are not collected by the Department.