§ Mr. Kaufmanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many tenants of private landlords are in receipt of rent allowances; what is the average rent allowance payment; and how much in aggregate in the latest available financial year was being spent in rent allowance payments to tenants of private landlords.
§ Mr. StanleyInformation on the rent allowances of tenants of private landlords cannot be separated from that of tenants of housing associations. Following is the available information:
replied that his Department and mine are already considering the question of designations for those areas which will be losing assisted area status, and on the latter we have said that we have nothing to add to the reply to similar representations made to that Department.