Question follow-through · 23201
Right to Buy Scheme: Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 5.149 of the Autumn Budget, whether receipts from right to buy sales (a) are ringfenced for new council housing or (b) can be used for general spendin
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 5.149 of the Autumn Budget, whether receipts from right to buy sales (a) are ringfenced for new council housing or (b) can be used for general spendin
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2025
Answer published
At the Budget on 30 October 2024, the Chancellor confirmed that local authorities can now retain 100% of their receipts from Right to Buy sales.Approximately 65% of these receipts are conditionally retained by councils on the basis that they will be used ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Planning Authorities: Staff
3 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of numbers of local authority planning officers to support planning reform.
Park Homes: Sales
3 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 31 July 2024 to Question 1176 on Park Homes: Sales, what her policy is on the longstanding concerns about the regulation of park home sites and the requ
Housing: Disability
18 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending building regulations to require future accessible and adaptable dwelling to include (a) step-free entrances and