§ Mr. John Fraserasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish, for each local authority in England and Wales, his estimates of the rise in rents before rebate of dwellings in the housing revenue account of each authority when they are placed on a fair rents basis and in a form showing both 138W the percentage and total cash increase on rents for 1971–72.
§ Mr. ChannonThe fair rent depends on all the circumstances and in particular the age, character and locality of the dwelling and its state of repair. Estimates of the fair rent for the dwellings of any authority are best made by the authority itself. Part V of the Housing Finance Bill proposes that each authority should provisionally assess the fair rents of their housing revenue account dwellings.