Written question asked by Christopher Chope (Conservative) on Thursday, 23 January 2003, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 28 January 2003. It was answered by Tony McNulty (Labour) on Tuesday, 28 January 2003 on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Question: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will place in the Library a list of lower quartile prices of properties sold in each local authority area in each quarter of 2002. - Inc figures and fact that a table showing lower quartile property prices is in Library as Dep 03/378.

Answer: Mr. Chope: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will place in the Library a list of lower quartile prices of properties sold in each local authority area in each quarter of 2002. [94045] Mr. McNulty: A table showing lower quartile property prices in each local authority area will be available in the Library from Wednesday 29 January. Figures will be provided for all four quarters of 2001 and for the first three quarters of 2002. The figures are derived from the Land Registry dataset covering all residential property transactions-- but excluding properties sold for less than £1,000 or more than £20 million. Note that the figures for Q3 2002 are provisional only. Revised and final figures for Q3 2002 will be made available by end-February, which is when provisional figures for Q4 2002 will also be available.

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