§ Mr. Ronald Brownasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will take steps to establish a Public Health Inspectorate completely independent of the local authorities, to whom a tenant can appeal for help to ensure his local authority landlord complies with the provisions of the Public Health Acts ;
(2) what rights he proposes for tenants to be consulted by the local authority before any assessment is made for their homes ; and what machinery he proposes to enable the tenant to be present and represented by experts at the special committee responsible for determining assessments as laid down in the fair-rent procedure for privately rented property under the Rent Act, 1965 ;
(3) what assistance he is proposing for tenants to employ qualified surveyors, architects, lawyers and other experts to assist in making representations to the local authority responsible for determining the provisional assessment for their homes ; and if financial responsibility for such experts will be met from public funds ;
(4) if he will publish his proposed procedure for enabling tenants to obtain comparisons with other properties in Greater London when considering the provisional assessments made by the London boroughs as envisaged in Command Paper No. 4728 ;
204W(5) if he proposes to give local authority tenants the same rights of access to information concerning their landlords' assessment of a fair-rent as the private tenant has under the fair-rents procedure contained in the Rent Act, 1965.
§ Mr. Amery: Under the proposals in Command Paper No. 4728 the rents of council dwellings will be fixed by an administrative procedure, as at present. Further details of this procedure will be set out in the legislation giving effect to the proposals. This will be introduced in the next Session.