§ 3. Mr. Murtonasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT those local authorities whose proposed rent reorganisation schemes have been rejected by him.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonUnder the Prices and Incomes Act, 1968, 172 local authorities have submitted 183 proposals for rent increases to which my right hon. Friend has been unable to agree. I will, with permission, circulate a list in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Mr. MurtonI am delighted that the right hon. Gentleman intends to publish the list. Would he agree that it will give ratepayers fair warning that the only alternative to reorganised rent schemes is the inevitability of higher rates next year?
§ Mr. RobinsonNo, Sir. I emphatically reject that suggestion. [Interruption.] Most of the authorities had obvious scope for breaking down balances or, in a few cases, for restricting capital expenditure to revenue. Except in a few cases, we have not expected authorities to increase their rate fund contributions. We have done so only where there was no other way of keeping their rent increases within the limits set by the Prices and Incomes Board.
| Greater London Council | |
| County Boroughs | Darwen. |
| Bath. | Devizes. |
| Blackburn. | Dorchester. |
| Gateshead. | Dover. |
| Leeds. | Durham. |
| Leicester. | Eastleigh. |
| Liverpool. | Ellesmere Port |
| Manchester. | Falmouth. |
| Norwich. | Folkestone. |
| Southend. | Gravesend. |
| Wallasey. | Kidderminster. |
| Warrington. | Launceston. |
| London Boroughs | Leamington Spa. |
| Bromley. | Leigh. |
| Enfield. | Macclesfield. |
| Haringey. | Newbury. |
| Hillingdon. | New Sarum. |
| Kensington and Chelsea. | New Windsor. |
| Nuneaton. | |
| Lambeth. | Penzance. |
| Merton. | Pontefract. |
| Westminster. | Rochester. |
| Boroughs | Stalybridge. |
| Andover. | Spenborough. |
| Appleby. | Stourbridge. |
| Barnstaple. | Thetford. |
| Bodmin. | Wokingham. |
| Boston. | Urban Districts |
| Brackley. | Aldridge-Brown-hills. |
| Calne. | |
| Chichester. | Audenshaw. |
| Chipping Norton. | Bicester. |
| Christchurch. | Biddulph. |
| Colne. | Bingley. |
| Crewe. | Bourne. |
| Crosby. | Bradford-on-Avon. |
| Urban Districts—cont. | Brixworth. |
| Brandon and Byshottles. | Buckingham. |
| Bullingdon. | |
| Chesham. | Calne and Chippenham. |
| Coalville. | |
| Dalton-in-Furness. | Chanctonbury. |
| Darton. | Chesterfield. |
| Dawlish. | Chorley. |
| Denton. | Cockermouth. |
| East Grinstead. | Darlington. |
| Formby. | Daventry. |
| Fulwood. | Docking. |
| Gosforth. | Downham. |
| Heanor. | Elham. |
| Hitchin. | Epping and Ongar. |
| Ince-in-Makerfield. | Erpingham. |
| Leighton-Linslade. | Forehoe and Henstead. |
| Leyland. | |
| Littleborough. | Fylde. |
| Littlehampton. | Godstons. |
| Meltham. | Guildford. |
| Newport Pagnell. | Kirkbymoorside. |
| Norton-Radstock. | Launceston. |
| Otley. | Ledbury. |
| Portslade. | Leominster and Wigmore. |
| Rainford. | |
| Redditch. | Lichfield. |
| Shoreham-by-Sea. | Liskeard. |
| Spalding. | Macclesfield. |
| Stocksbridge. | Malling. |
| Sutton-in-Ashfield. | Marlborough and Ramsey. |
| Swaffham. | |
| Teignmouth. | Mildenhall. |
| Thame. | Nantwich. |
| Trowbridge. | Newark. |
| Turton. | Newbury. |
| Ventnor. | Newton Abbot. |
| Wellingborough. | Norman Cross. |
| Wellington (Salop). | North Cotswold. |
| Welwyn Garden City. | North Kesteven. |
| North Shropshire. | |
| Whickham. | Pickering. |
| Whitstable. | Romsey and Stockbridge. |
| Wimborne Minster. | |
| Wirral. | St. Ives (Hunts.). |
| Woking. | Sodbury. |
| Rural Districts | South East Derbyshire. |
| Alsfon with Garrigill. | |
| South Kesteven. | |
| Axminster. | Southwell. |
| Aysgarth. | Stokesley. |
| Barnstaple. | Strood. |
| Barrow-upon-Soar. | Tadcaster. |
| Battle. | Torrinston. |
| Blackwell. | Watford. |
| Blofield and Flegg. | Wharfedale. |
| Bradfield. | Winchester. |
| Bridgnorth. | Yeovil. |