§ Mr. Winnickasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will state the number of applications to the rent officer and rent assessment committee for the first nine months of this year for the Greater London area and for the rest of the country, respectively, indicating the number of rents which was increased, decreased, and left unchanged.
§ Mr. Denis Howell10,209 applications for registration of fair rents were determined by rent officers in Greater London and 24,759 by rent officers in the rest of England and Wales during the first nine months of 1969, (1st January to 28th September). During this same period 766 appeals were decided by rent assessment committees in Greater London and 1,022 by rent assessment committees in the rest of England and Wales.
Computer analyses of those cases where the basis on which the registered rents were determined was comparable with the basis on which the previous rent rested, are available for the first 6 months of 1969. The results of the analyses, which relate to the final rent in each case whether fixed by rent officer or rent assessment committee, are as follows:
Greater London Rest of England and Wales Previous rent: Increased 4,164 5,987 Decreased 1,660 2,029 Unchanged 579 637 Total 6,403 8,653
§ Mr. Winnickasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what further action, apart from the special provision already laid down for rents which are still controlled, he proposes to take to deal with large rent increases in the private sector arising from applications being made to rent officers and rent assessment committees.
§ Mr. Denis HowellThe Rent (Control of Increases) Bill, which was published on 6th November provides, in respect of44W certain rents determined by rent officers or rent assessment committees in 1970 and 1971, a period of delay over which increases have to be spread. For the detailed provisions I would refer my hon. Friend to the Bill itself.