Will Quince – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Will Quince on 2015-11-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to revise the agreement reached with the National Housing Federation on right to buy to remove references to almshouses in the table of discretionary sales.

Brandon Lewis

Almshouses are exempt from the Right to Buy for council housing. This long-standing exemption will also apply to the extended Right to Buy for housing associations.