Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the projected public expenditure on the right to buy for housing association tenants is in each of the next five years.

As we announced at the Autumn Budget, the Government is funding a large scale £200 million regional pilot of the Voluntary Right to Buy scheme in the Midlands, which will launch this summer. The funding will be £50 million in 2018/19 and £150 million in 2019/20. The pilot will test key aspects of the voluntary agreement with housing associations not tested in the initial small-scale pilot, including the portable discount and one for one replacement.