§ 86. Mr. Sorensenasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will secure, for the information of Parliament, statistics showing how many local authorities have adopted rent rebate or differential rent schemes for the tenants of their houses.
§ Mr. H. BrookeThis information is already available through statistics collected by the Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants. It can be found in the Institute's booklet entitled "Housing Statistics" which was published last November.
As the booklet shows, there are many different forms of rent rebate and differential rent schemes. But the general position is that 363 authorities out of the 1,223 which supplied information had some kind of scheme in operation at 31st March, 1958. The schemes fell into the four 105W broad groups which are distinguished below according to the method adopted for calculating the maximum rent.
A. Maximum rent designed to cover total annual outgoings, i.e., un-subsidised rent 109 B. Maximum rent designed to cover total annual outgoings after deduction of subsidies, i.e., fully subsidised rent 110 C. Maximum rent designed to cover total annual outgoings after deduction of a portion of the available subsidies, i.e., partially subsidised rent 113 D. Maximum rent calculated on some other basis 31 Total 363 In addition to these authorities, another 297 authorities made "lodger charges" at that date.