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Mr. Cartwright
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress has been made in devising a new system of portable discounts to enable tenants of charitable housing associations to purchase their own homes; and when he expects this to be in operation.
Mr. Chope
[holding answer 29 June 1990]: The Housing Corporation has now introduced a new scheme, known as the tenants' incentive scheme, under which registered housing associations, whether or not charitable, may give grants to assist their tenants to move out and buy homes of their own.