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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to extend the right to buy to Low Start Shared Ownership schemes; and if he will make a statement.

Under the statutory Right to Buy, people are not eligible who already own a share of their home, including those who purchased their home under Low Start Shared Ownership.

Shared owners can ask their landlords to use the powers given by section 32 of Part II of the Housing Act 1985 to offer them a discount on a further share of their home. It is at the landlord’s discretion whether to offer such a discount.