§ 60. Sir C. Mott-Radclyffeasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will ensure that when rents are reduced under the rent regulating machinery of the 1965 Act, any subsequent increase in rents which is permitted because of repairs or other reasons can be allowed to operate immediately, instead of being phased, unless the increase represents a considerable addition over the original rent before the reduction.
§ Mr. MacCollA previous reduction in rent is not in itself a sufficient reason for excluding an increase from phasing. If phasing depended on whether or not repairs were undertaken during the operation of the phasing scheme anomalies would result and landlords who had not previously carried out their obligations would be better off than those who had. Provision has been made for the exclusion from phasing of increases due to improvements and rises in the cost of services.