I NOTE that Councillor Simpson-Laing has replied to various readers' questions on housing (June 22) raised in response to her original letter of June 6.

Mine, however, seems to have slipped her notice.

Perhaps I may repeat it in hope of a reply: "Can she therefore promise us that she and her New Labour colleagues won't sell off any of York's council housing stock to the private/voluntary sector?"

Ben Drake,

Danum Road,

Fulford, York.

Updated: 11:28 Wednesday, June 26, 2002