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Mr. Pollock
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he intends to give further encouragement to his smallholding tenants to take advantage of their statutory rights to purchase their holdings.
Mr. Younger
To encourage applications from tenants of leasehold and land-hold units on my land settlement estates to buy their holdings I have decided that when I accept such an application I shall sell at 30 per cent. of the open market
| Non-industrial | industrial | Total | |||||||
| £m. | £m. | £m. | |||||||
| 1975–76 | … | … | … | … | … | … | 530 | 339 | 869 |
| 1976–77 | … | … | … | … | … | … | 557 | 374 | 931 |
| 1977–78 | … | … | … | … | … | … | 578 | 393 | 971 |
| 1978–79 | … | … | … | … | … | … | 615 | 421 | 1,036 |
| 1979–80* | … | … | … | … | … | … | 604 | 417 | 1,021 |
| * Forecast at 1978–79 prices. | |||||||||