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26.
Mr. Knox
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many council houses have been sold to sitting tenants in Scotland since May 1979.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
Between April 1979 and September 1991 nearly 234,000 public sector houses in Scotland were sold to sitting tenants. Included in that figure are nearly 173,000 sales by local authorities.