Question follow-through · 83604
Right to Buy Scheme: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department records the (a) nationality and (b) immigration status of tenants who purchase their homes under the Right to Buy scheme; and how many Right to Buy sales h
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department records the (a) nationality and (b) immigration status of tenants who purchase their homes under the Right to Buy scheme; and how many Right to Buy sales h
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
My Department does not record the nationality or immigration status of tenants who have purchased their homes under the Right to Buy scheme, nor how many Right to Buy sales have been made to non-British nationals. Eligibility for social housing is already...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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