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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect on the availability of social housing of excluding properties in small rural settlements from the Right to Acquire scheme.

The Government is committed to enabling social tenants, including those who live in rural areas, to achieve their aspiration for home ownership where this is the right option for them.

We are also committed to ensuring that affordable rented housing is available to people in these areas.

The Government is keeping the Right to Acquire under review and welcomes representations on how tenants of housing associations can be further supported to access home ownership.