To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to fully exempt Community Land Trusts and cohousing tenants from the Voluntary Right to Buy; and if he will make a statement.

Residents of co-operatives are exempt from the Voluntary Right to Buy, and housing associations – including those partnering in community-led schemes – will have discretion not to sell certain homes. This can include homes built through a community land trust.

Where a housing association exercises this discretion, the tenant will be offered an alternative property so that they have the same opportunity for home ownership as other tenants.

Housing associations are professional organisations that operate according to sound commercial and social principles, and we would expect them to work with their local community on the operation of the voluntary agreement.

We are currently running a large-scale pilot of the Voluntary Right to Buy in the Midlands, one aim of which is to test out the exemptions and portability policies.