Greg Mulholland – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2015-10-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on marketing the Right to Buy scheme’s extension to housing associations since 8 May 2015.

Brandon Lewis

The Department recently set up a ‘register of interest’ to promote extended Right to Buy using our existing Right to Buy website and we also signposted the register across other channels, resulting in over 2,000 expressions of interest to date from existing housing association tenants. As the set up costs have been borne from existing Right to Buy website hosting services, it would not be possible to disaggregate the costs of marketing extended Right to Buy alone but it is a very small proportion of the overall costs.