HL Deb 18 March 1980 vol 407 cc205-6WA
Lord HYLTON

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they can state the percentage of house-buyers with local authority loans who were in mortgage arrears and the percentage of local authority housing tenants who were in rents arrears on the most recent dates for which evidence is available.

Lord BELLW1N

The department does not collect information on local authority mortgage arrears. The provisional figure for 1978–79 is that in England and Wales rent arrears at 31st March 1979 totalled some 4 per cent. of total rent collectable in that year.