Housing Association Properties

HC Deb 14 March 2002 vol 381 cc1202-3W

Mr. Gerrard

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions how many housing association properties have been sold under the Right to Acquire provisions in each London borough in each year since the provisions came into force. [42968]

Ms Keeble

The Right to Acquire came into force on 1 April 1997. It gives eligible tenants of registered social landlords the right to purchase their rented home with the benefit of a discount. There have been 53 completed Right to Acquire sales in total from 1 April 1997 to the end of February 2002. 12 of these were in London boroughs, as follows:

	Completions
1999–2000
Redbridge	1
2000–01
Bexley	2
Croydon	1
Haringey	1
Newham	1
Waltham Forest	1

	Completions
2001–021
Bexley	1
Ealing	1
Newham	2
Sutton	1
111 months only