§ 61. Mr. Milneasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will now describe in detail the administrative arrangements made for the functioning of the committee appointed under the chairmanship of Lord Redcliffe-Maud to consider the rules of conduct applying to members and officers in local government.
§ Mr. Graham PageThe answer given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Handsworth (Mr. Sydney Chapman) on 8th November sets out the committee's membership and terms of reference.—[Vol. 863, c.232.] The committee has already met a number of times and has issued a general invitation to any person or body wishing to submit written evidence. It has asked that such evidence should reach the committee not later than 15th December. The committee has its own full-time secretariat and will shortly have its own offices. Meanwhile, communications should be addressed to the Secretary, the
STOCK OF DWELLINGS BY TENURE, GREAT BRITAIN Percentages December April December December 1944 1951 1970 1972 Owner-occupied … … … 26 29 50 51 Privately rented … … … 54 45 15 13 Rented from local authority or new town … … … 12 18 30 31 Other (by virtue of employment, rented with business premises, etc.) … … … 8 8 5 5 Equivalent estimates from Government sources for earlier years are not available, but an unofficial estimate of the position in 1914 indicated that about one-tenth of dwellings were owner-occupied, I per cent. were council rented and the remainder privately rented.