§ 68. Mr. BAKERasked the Minister of Health whether he will consider the issue of a statement of the average rents sanctioned by the Rents Tribunal for State-assisted houses in each of the principal towns and rural areas; and to what extent, in order to make it possible for them to be inhabited by the working classes, these have been reduced as wages have fallen?
§ Mr. WHEATLEYRents are decided by the Rents Tribunal only in cases in which a difference of opinion has arisen between the local authority and the Minister as to the sufficiency of the rents charged for houses erected under the 1919 assisted housing scheme. It is open to a local authority to refer their case again to the Tribunal, in respect of any later period, 2322 if necessity arises. I will forward the hon. Member a statement of the decisions of the Tribunal in a few days.