To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many properties have been bought by (a) a council tenants and (b) housing association tenants either outright or through shared purchase schemes in the past 10 years.

It is estimated that 1·1 million council tenants and 53,000 housing association tenants purchased their homes either outright or through shared ownership schemes in England in the years 1980–81 to 1989–90.