HC Deb 13 November 1974 vol 881 c130W
Mr. Nicholas Edwards

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will show (a) average council house rents and (b) average domestic rents in the private sector, expressed as a percentage of average weekly earnings of full-time manual workers, for each year since 1965 up to the latest available date.

Mr. Kaufman

Estimates for England and Wales of average unrebated rents as percentages of manual workers' average weekly earnings are as follows:

Local authority housing Privately rented unfurnished housing
1965 7 7
1966 8 8
1967 8 8
1968 8 8
1969 8 8
1970 8 7
1971 8 7
1972 8 7
1973 8 6