§ Mr. Ness Edwardsasked the Minister of Health if he can now give particulars of the recommendations of the Advisory Committees with regard to rent for the purposes of the new supplementary pensions regulations.
§ 6 Mr. WillinkThe following statement shows the recommendations of Advisory Committees regarding the amounts up to which in the respective areas and in the classes of cases mentioned allowances for rent shall be regarded as reasonable for the purpose of the Supplementary Pensions Regulations dated 16th December, 1943, and the Unemployment Assistance Regulations dated 21st December, 1943. The recommendations have been accepted by the Assistance Board and effect has been or will be given to them on the basis that if the household consists of more than two adults or one adult and two children larger amounts may be allowed and if in any case the actual rent exceeds the amount specified the case will be considered on its merits and a further addition will be made, if such is necessary in order to avoid hardship. Complete statistics are not available but it is estimated from a sample inquiry that under these arrangements the full amount of the actual rent will be provided for in over 90 per cent, of all cases.
Note.—As many of the areas indicated below do not correspond with local government areas, very long descriptions would be necessary to indicate the precise boundaries within which the various figures mentioned will operate. Details regarding any particular place not specifically mentioned can be obtained from the Board's local office.
Household of Two Adults or One Adult and One or Two Children
s.d. Localities not specially mentioned below.
2190Ws.d. Buckinghamshire, part of Berkshire, Norwich, Lowestoft, Nottingham, Pontefract, Wakefield, Bradford, Keighley, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, North Shields, Tynemouth, Wallsend, Pontypridd, The Rhondda.
s.d. Parts of East Kent, Bristol, Oxford, Reading, Northampton, Western part of Leicestershire (except Leicester), Great Yarmouth, Lincoln, parts of Lindsey (Lincolnshire), Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Gateshead, Edinburgh, Leith, Glasgow, Swansea, part of Brecknock.
s.d. Parts of West Sussex.
s.d. Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Folkestone, parts of West Kent and East Sussex, Chelmsford, Newmarket, Isle of Wight, Plymouth, Saltash, Torpoint, Greater Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Derby, Grimsby, Hull, St. Helens, Monmouthshire, part of Brecknock, Bargoed, Caerphilly.
s.d. Southampton, Gosport, Portsmouth, Clacton-on-Sea, Felixstowe, Aldeburgh, Thorpeness, Southwold.
s.d. Central London, North East London including parts of Essex, Watford, St. Albans, Luton, Dunstable, Hastings, Bexhill, Liverpool, Bootle, Southport, Cleethorpes, Harrogate, Cardiff, Barry.
s.d. South East London including parts of Kent, Croydon, parts of South and South East Essex, Torquay, Paignton, The Wirral part of Cheshire (except Wallasey), Manchester, Salford, Bridlington.
s.d. North West and South West London including parts of Surrey and Middlesex.
s.d. Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, Weymouth, Wallasey, Morecambe, Heysham, Lytham St. Annes, Blackpool, Fleetwood.
s.d. Eastbourne, Brighton, Hove, Shoreham-by-Sea, Worthing, Bognor Regis, Southend-on-Sea.
Pensioners Living Alone
s.d. Localities not specially mentioned below.
s.d. Leeds, Norwich.
s.d. Parts of West Sussex, Isle of Wight, Plymouth, Saltash, Tot-point, Oxford, Reading, Colchester, Ipswich, Great Yarmouth, Northampton, Stoke-on-Trent, 2191W Nottingham, Mansfield, Worksop, Chesterfield, Lincoln, parts of Lindsey (Lincolnshire), Pontefract, Wakefield, Bradford, Keighley, York, Scarborough, Middlesbrough, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, St. Helens, Warrington North and South Shields, Tynemouth, Wallsend, Blaydon, Hexham, Edinburgh, Leith, Glasgow, Cardiff, Barry, Swansea, part of Brecknock.
s.d. Lowestoft.
s.d. Central London, North East and South East London including parts of Essex, Croydon, parts of Kent, Southend, Chelmsford, Newmarket, Portsmouth, Gosport, Southampton, Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, Weymouth, Greater Birmingham, Coventry, Western part of Leicestershire (except Leicester), Derby, Manchester, Salford, Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Hull, Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Gateshead, Stirling, Falkirk, County of Clackmannan.
s.d. Eastbourne, Brighton, Hove, Shoreham-by-Sea, Worthing, Bognor Regis Watford, St. Albans, Luton, Dunstable, Clacton-on-Sea, Felixstowe, Aldeburgh, Thorpeness, Southwold, The Wirral part of Cheshire (except Wallasey), Bootle, Walton, Southport, Lytham St. Annes, Blackpool, Fleetwood.
s.d. North West and South West London including parts of Surrey and Middlesex, Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Folkestone, Hastings, Bexhill, Torquay, Paignton, Leicester, Liverpool (except Walton), Wallasey, Harrogate.
s.d. Bridlington.
s.d. Morecambe and Heysham.