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Housing: Low Incomes

Volume 492: debated on Friday 15 May 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what estimate she has made of the administrative cost to the public purse of the operation of the right to buy scheme in each year since 1997; (274844)

(2) what her Department's policy on the charging by local authorities of right to buy administrative costs to their housing revenue accounts is; and if she will make a statement.

A local authority is permitted to fund its administrative costs incidental to and of a right to buy (RTB) disposal from the receipt arising from that disposal.

A local authority's other administrative costs relating to RTB are required to be charged to its housing revenue account.