To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn, Hatfield of 10 September 2008, Official Report, columns 1996-98W, on the right to buy scheme: discounts, what consideration her Department and its predecessors have given to increasing right to buy discounts in line with house price inflation and appreciation since 1997. (230152)

The Government have no plan to change the current maximum limits on Right to Buy discounts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn, Hatfield of 10 September 2008, Official Report, columns 1996-98W, on the right to buy scheme: discounts, what assessment her Department or its contractors has made of the effect of the changes in right to buy discounts and eligibility on the affordability of right to buy properties. (230155)

The School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol and the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham carried out a thorough assessment of the impact of the changes to Right to Buy discounts that took effect in February 1999. Copies were placed in the Libraries of both Houses in May 2003. The report is also available on the website of the Department for Communities and Local Government, at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/housing/impact

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what each of the regional and local authority caps for right to buy discounts are. (230191)

The current maximum right to buy discount limits determined by the Secretary of State under section 131 of the Housing Act 1985 are: