§ 66. Sir L. Plummerasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government, whether he is aware that the full effect of the 7 per cent. Bank Rate is to increase the rent of three-bedroomed council flats in Deptford by £1 0s. 8d. per week; and what steps he proposes to take to relieve Deptford tenants of this burden.
§ Mr. H. BrookeIt is for each local authority to decide what rents they will charge. Authorities which pool their rents and subsidies, and which adopt rent systems designed to ensure that subsidy only goes to help those families who need it, find it possible to let new dwellings at rents within the capacity of tenants to pay.