To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to allow "opt outs" from the right to buy in order to allow social landlords in rural areas to retain houses which cannot be replaced by comparable accommodation. Measures are already in place which allow local authorities in rural areas to have a specified area designated as a rural area and allow the landlord a "first option" to purchase a RTB property before it can be sold on to a third party. This measure applies also to houses for which a registered housing association was the landlord at 7 January 1987, as it does for council houses, although only a council can seek to have an area designated.