§ Mr. Welshasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report the numbers and percentages of persons receiving (a) rent and (b) rate rebates in both public and private sectors of housing; and if he will give the total values of these rebates.
§ Mr. William RossThe latest information regarding rent rebates and allowances is for 1974–75, as follows:
Rent Rebates
192WEstimated total number of recipients: 318,000 As a percentage of all public sector tenants: 33 per cent.Rent Allowances
Estimated total number of recipients: 47,900 As a percentage of all private sector tenants: 22 per cent.These figures include tenants receiving rent rebate or allowance as part of Supplementary Benefit.The total value of rent rebates and allowances in the financial year 1974–75 was given in the reply to my hon. Friend the Member for West Stirlingshire (Mr. Canavan) on Monday 8th December.—[Vol. 902, c. 78.]
No corresponding figures are yet available on the current scheme of rate rebates. Information regarding the last year of the previous rate rebate scheme is contained in the publication "Rate Rebates in Scotland 1973–74", copies of which are available in the Library.