§ Mr. Whitakerasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what plans he has for reallocating Exchequer money devoted to housing, including wealthy owner-occupiers, to those families in need, including those unable to pay private rents.
§ Mr. MacCollThe Housing Subsidies Act 1967 provides both increased subsidies for local authority housing to rent and help for the owner-occupier who does not fully benefit from tax allowances on his mortgage payments. If a private tenant has to claim supplementary benefit because he is in financial difficulty, the rent that he has to pay is one of the items taken into consideration in assessing his requirements.
437WMy right hon. Friend has no further proposals to announce at present but the longer-term review of housing finance envisaged in the White Paper on the Housing Programme, 1965 to 1970 (Cmnd. 2838) is continuing.