HC Deb 05 November 1975 vol 899 cc214-5W
Mr. Hordern

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the average rent of a council house, compared with average earnings, and the proportion that the former bears to the latter, in the years 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, and each year thereafter, to the latest convenient date; and a further table showing the average subsidy element of the average rent in the same years.

Mr. Armstrong

The available information is given in the following table. Figures on a comparable basis are not available for earlier years.

bank; and what study has been made of the cost of financing it and the sources of the funds required.

Mr. Freeson

I propose to study the issues which would arise in establishing a brick bank following the report which the Monopolies and Mergers Commission hopes to make within a few months on its investigation into the supply of bricks.

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