§ Mr. Allen McKayTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish for(a) England, (b) 357W Yorkshire and Humberside and (c) Barnsley district, the average level of local authority rents and fair rents registered for unfurnished dwellings for each year since 1979, indicating the percentage in each year on an annual and cumulative basis; and what was the change in the retail price index over the same period.
(A) Average weekly unrebated rents at April for local authority dwellings England Yorkshire and Humberside Barnsley Average rent Per cent, increase Average rent Per cent, increase Average rent Per cent, increase £ over year since 1979 £ over year since 1979 £ over year since 1979 1979 6.41 — — 5.45 — — 4.53 — — 1980 7.70 20 20 6.63 22 22 6.32 40 40 1981 11.42 48 78 10.02 51 84 9.73 54 115 1982 13.48 18 110 11.39 14 109 10.99 13 143 1983 13.97 4 118 11.88 4 118 11.99 9 165 1984 14.66 5 129 12.47 5 129 12.55 5 177 1985 15.54 6 142 13.77 10 153 13.29 6 193 1986 16.36 5 155 14.88 8 173 14.39 8 218 1987 17.20 5 168 15.93 7 192 15.10 5 233 19881 18.67 9 191 17.09 7 214 15.77 4 248 1 Provisional.
(B) Fair rents1 (£ per week) unfurnished tenancies2 second half-year averages Retail price index United Kingdom April England Yorkshire and Humberside Percentage increase £ £ over year since 1979 1979 39.55 46.85 — — 1980 311.40 48.05 22 22 1981 13.00 9.85 12 36 1982 14.25 11.35 9 49 1983 15.60 12.35 4 55 1984 16.80 13.55 5 63 1985 18.05 14.90 7 75 1986 19.95 17.15 3 80 1987 21.20 17.85 4 87 1 Service charges, if any, are included. 2 Registered rents are for private regulated tenancies only. 3 England and Wales. 4 Annual average (second half-year not available). The mix of properties for which rents are registered varies from year to year for a number of reasons; for example, extension of decontrol in 1981; the reduction from three to two years in the minimum period for re-registration which led to re-registrations in 1983 of rents previously registered in 1980 and 1981. Therefore, comparisons of averages for consecutive years do not properly reflect rent movements. Better estimates of rent movements are derived from previous and new registered rents for tenancies where there has been no material change in terms or in the physical condition. For properties with rents fixed in the second halves of 1979, 1982, 1984 and 1986, the estimated increases are:
England Yorkshire and Humberside Percentage increase Percentage increase in period annualised in period annualised 1979–82 47 14 58 16 1982–84 18 9 18 9 1984–86 17 8 18 9 The estimated annualized increase for properties with rents fixed in the second half of 1987 was 9 per cent. for
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§ Mrs. RoeThe latest available figures on local authority rents, the average rents registered by rent officers and the movements in the retail prices index up to 1987 are as follows:
both England, Yorkshire and Humberside. Information provided by rent officers is not available below county level outside London.