HC Deb 21 July 1978 vol 954 c443W
Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what were the average increases in unfurnished private rents re-registered in 1977 in London as a whole, in Kensington and Chelsea, in the City of Westminster and in Camden.

Mr. Armstrong

The mean increase on re-registration by rent officers in 1977 of rents for unfurnished tenancies previously registered not more than four years before—excluding housing association tenancies and cases where a change of circumstances had occurred—was 39 per cent, in Greater London, 40 per cent, in Kensington and Chelsea, 43 per cent, in Westminster and 39 per cent, in Camden.