§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the highest rent which a farmer has been allowed to charge for a tied cottage occupied by a non-salaried worker.
§ Mr. StrangI assume that the hon. Member is concerned with non-salaried agricultural workers who are housed by their employers and who are entitled to the statutory safeguards under the Agricultural Wages Act 1948 referred to in the reply was given to him on 24th July. [Vol. 954, c.517–8.]
Information is not available to show in terms the highest rent which a farmer could charge under the general Agricultural Wages Board formula related to not carrying the workers cash wage mote than £1.50 below his minimum weekly entitlement, or where a direction from a local agricultural wages committee is in force in relation to a particular case. The largest sum in an AWC direction issued before 1978 substituted £7 for £1.50 in the AWB formula.