§ Mr. Woodburnasked the Secretary of State for Scotland the highest known rent charged by any local authority for a four-apartment house and also the lowest rent.
§ Mr. J. StuartNo information is available about the rents of individual houses. At 15th November, 1954, the highest and lowest average standard rents per annum for four-apartment local authority houses were £43 6s. 8d. and £12, respectively, for pre-war houses, and £57 and £19 7s. 7d. for post-war houses. Details are published in Command Paper "Rents of Houses
228WOrders in Council made under Section 65 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, declaring that the Convention has been applied to those countries:
Owned by Local Authorities in Scotland, 1954" (Cmd. 9539).
§ Mr. Woodburnasked the Secretary of State for Scotland which local authorities in Scotland administer schemes of rent rebates on differential rents; and whether there are any general principles common to such schemes.
§ Mr. J. StuartSo far as I am aware no local authority in Scotland operates a scheme of differential rents, but at 15th November, 1954, rent rebates schemes, based on the principle of relieving genuine need, were being operated by the following local authorities:
Counties Argyll. Perth. Kinross. Renfrew. Lanark. Stirling. Large Burghs Coatbridge. Motherwell and Wishaw. Falkirk. Greenock. Paisley. Kilmarnock. Perth. Kirkcaldy. Rutherglen. Stirling. Small Burghs Bathgate. Johnstone. Callander. Kilsyth. Castle Douglas. Lanark. Cumnock. Linlithgow. Dalbeattie. Lockerbie. Dalkeith. Maybole. Duns. Nairn. Elgin. Peebles. Ellon. Queensferry. Eyemouth. St. Andrews. Huntly. NOTE.—Details of the number of houses in respect of which rent rebates are given and the average amount in each case are contained in "Rents of Houses Owned by Local Authorities in Scotland" (Cmd. 9539).