To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate has been made of the market value of homes owned by registered social landlords in each of the last three years. (270627)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 27 April 2009, Official Report, column 1113W.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many properties previously available for social rent from registered social landlords were sold in each local authority area in each year since 1997. (273646)

A table showing the number of registered social landlord (RSL) properties sold in each local authority area in each year from 2001-02 to 2007-08 has been placed in the House Library.

These figures are taken from returns made by RSLs through the regulatory and statistical returns (RSR) to the Tenant Services Authority. The figures show RSL sales under the following schemes; right to buy, preserved right to buy, right to acquire, voluntary purchase grant, social homebuy and other shared equity homebuy schemes. It also includes other shared ownership sales (such as new build and open market homebuy), including sales of initial shares. Sales to other RSLs, and sales to the private sector for non-social housing use, cannot be broken down to LA level, but are included in the England total.

These figures are not available from RSR returns before 2001-02.