Mr. R. C. Mitchellasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will detail the amounts granted from public funds to Southampton Corporation for each financial year from 1961–62 to 1966–67.
§ Mr. SkeffingtonThe information is as follows:—
about rent increases, he will now advise local authorities to freeze existing rents of council house tenants until the Government's proposals are made known.
§ Mr. GreenwoodNo. The Government recognise that some rent increases are 211W necessary and reasonable, but all authorities have been advised to moderate any necessary increases and to phase any unavoidably substantial increases over a period.