HC Deb 29 October 1957 vol 575 c19W
90. Mr. Brockway

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will make a statement on the effects of the Rent Act on the level of rents.

Mr. H. Brooke

So far as the rents of controlled houses are concerned, none can have been increased by more than 7s. 6d. a week as a maximum, and there can be no increase at all where a certificate of disrepair is in force. As to decontrolled houses, new rents are for settlement between landlord and tenant, and many negotiations for this purpose are now going on.