§ Lord Carterasked Her Majesty's Government:
What progress has been made further to the announcement on the right to buy scheme made by the Deputy Prime Minister on 22 January 2003. [HL2049]
§ The Minister of State, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (Lord Rooker)The Housing (Right to Buy) (Limits on Discount) (Amendment) Order 2003, reducing the maximum discounts available under the right to buy scheme in 41 areas in London and the South of England, has today been laid before Parliament.
To coincide with the laying of the order, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has today published a report Exploitation of the Right to Buy scheme by companies by Professor Colin Jones of Heriot-Watt University. The full text of the report is available on the ODPM website http://www.housing.odpm.gov.uk/ information/rtb/index.htm
Hard copies of the report have been placed in the Vote Office, Printed Paper Office and the Libraries of the House.