Written question asked by Keith Darvill (Labour) on Tuesday, 16 March 1999, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 23 March 1999. It was answered by Nick Raynsford (Labour) on Tuesday, 23 March 1999 on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what research his Department has carried out on the numbers of former local authority tenants who have acquired leasehold flats under the right to buy legislation and are now unable to resell their homes on the open market; and if he will publish the results of that research. - Inc figs and ref to Housing Research Reports 'The Resale of Former Council Homes' and 'Leaseholders and Service Charges in Former Local Authority Flats', copies and summaries in Library and fact that DETR will publish further research results.
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Mr. Darvill: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what research his Department has carried out on the numbers of former local authority tenants who have acquired leasehold flats under the right to buy legislation and are now unable to resell their homes on the open market; and if he will publish the results of that research. [77649] Mr. Raynsford: My Department carried out two research studies which were published by HMSO in 1995 as Housing Research Reports, "The Resale of Former Council Homes" and "Leaseholders and Service Charges in Former Local Authority Flats". Copies of both reports and summaries are in the Library of the House. The Department has been carrying out further research into leaseholders of social landlords since 1996 as part of the Survey of English Housing. The Survey involves an annual sample of around 1 in 1,000 households and has only collected data on 256 leasehold properties which had been purchased from a local authority by a sitting tenant; and of these, only 18 had put their home on the market at some time since purchase. We shall publish results once we have statistically significant information.
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