§ Mr. Rossiasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the average weekly rebated and unrebated rent paid by a local authority or new town tenant expressed as a percentage of the average household income of local authority tenants in (a) 1976 and (b) 1977.
§ Mr. FreesonThe average rebated and unrebated rents paid by local authority or new town tenants in 1976 were about 6.1 per cent. and 7.0 per cent. respectively of average household income of such tenants. Figures for 1977 are not yet available.
The rents of tenants receiving supplementary benefit are unrebated as the full rent is taken into account for the purposes of calculating entitlement to supplementary benefit.