§ Mr. Winnickasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will be willing to meet a deputation of council tenants on 25 March regarding the rent increase recommended by the Government; and if he will make a statement;
(2) whether he will receive a deputation from Walsall council regarding the reduction in housing subsidies and the increase in council rents which the Government have recommended.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergNo. The necessary determinations of reckonable income for the new subsidy system have already been made and their effect was 205W discussed in this house on 15 December 1980. It is now for each local authority to discharge its ususal statutory responsibility for setting council house rent levels.