§ Mr. Carterasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the average weekly rent of council property in each of the years 1950 to 1972 inclusive; and what this represented as a percentage of the average weekly wage.
§ Mr. EyreThe information on rents is not available before 1961. Since then the following is the information:
Average weekly unrebated council rent in England and Wales at March/April Percentage of manual workers' average weekly earnings in October 1961 … 1.08* 7 1962 … 1.19* 8 1963 … 1.24* 7 1964 … 1.32* 7 1965 … 1.41 * 7 1966 … 1.55* 8 1967 … 1.69* 8 1968 … 1.89 8 1969 … 2.04 8 1970 … 2.22 8 1971 … 2.48 8 1972 … 2.75 8 * For these years the figure is the average weekly rebated rent. The unrebated figure would have been only marginally higher