To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in the Official Report any statutory rights that tenants will lose as a result of the ownership of their public sector or former Scottish Special Housing Association tenancies being transferred by the exercise of tenants' rights to voluntary transfer to an alternative public sector landlord.

Tenants who wish to exercise the statutory right under part III of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 and transfer to a new landlord would give up their secure tenancy and transfer on an assured tenancy basis.Tenants transferring by this route would lose their statutory right to buy but could enter a contractual agreement with their new landlord to preserve a form of RTB.Tenants including new town development corporation tenants transferring to Scottish Homes would transfer as secure tenants.