§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many people were living in (a) furnished and (b) unfurnished private rented accommodation at the latest convenient date; and how many of these in each case were in receipt of (i) rent allowances and (ii) supplementary benefit help with rent.
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§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergInformation for tenants living in privately rented accommodation in England is as follows:
'000 households Furnished Unfurnished Total households*—End 1977 590 1,830 Receiving rent allowance—October 1977 9 195 Receiving supplementary benefit—August 1977 482 *Source: National dwelling and housing survey.
Estimates are subject to sampling error.
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the average fixed annual rent for (a) furnished and (b) unfurnished privately rented accommodation in each county of England and Wales at the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergAverage fair rents registered by rent officers during 1979 are available for counties and metropolitan districts and are given in the following table:
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£ per annum Unfurnished Furnished ENGLAND NORTHERN REGION Counties Cleveland 386 614 Cumbria 355 646 Durham 327 663 Northumberland 348 748 Metropolitan Districts Gateshead 318 746 Newcastle upon Tyne 347 780 North Tyneside 330 574 South Tyneside 276 911 Sunderland 342 694 YORKSHIRE/ HUMBERSIDE Counties Humberside 389 605 North Yorkshire 456 647 Metropolitan Districts Barnsley 312 753 Doncaster 319 488 Rotherham 345 605 Sheffield 349 668 Bradford 431 552 Calderdale 323 462 Kirklees 303 610 Leeds 370 642 Wakefield 321 664 EAST MIDLANDS Counties Derbyshire 392 589 Leicestershire 392 528 Lincolnshire 421 529 Northamptonshire 445 540 Nottinghamshire 411 624 229W
£ per annum Unfurnished Furnished EAST ANGLIA Counties Cambridgeshire 513 998 Norfolk 509 851 Suffolk 483 767 SOUTH EAST Greater London 668 929 Counties Bedfordshire 467 718 Berkshire 452 839 Buckinghamshire 560 973 Essex 512 682 Hampshire 429 706 Hertfordshire 485 728 Isle of Wight 450 659 Kent 557 694 Oxfordshire 549 949 Surrey 551 987 East Sussex 555 687 West Sussex 530 568 SOUTH WEST Counties Avon 551 787 Cornwall 479 701 Devon 524 750 Dorset 548 697 Gloucestershire 471 564 Somerset 532 725 Wiltshire 487 722 WEST MIDLANDS Counties Hereford and Worcester 513 668 Salop 492 604 Staffordshire 416 620 Warwickshire 437 658 Metropolitan Districts Birmingham 453 577 Coventry 450 545 Dudley 459 422 Sandwell 427 426 Solihull 525 1,488 Walsall 399 543 Wolverhampton 463 554 NORTH WEST Counties Cheshire 366 552 Lancashire 431 561 Metropolitan Districts Bolton 352 500 Bury 378 380 Manchester 328 682 Oldham 287 482 Rochdale 271 304 Salford 308 546 Stockport 363 629 Tameside 313 655 Trafford 388 526 Wigan 306 615 Knowsley 382 876 Liverpool 312 501 St. Helens 348 — Sefton 384 585 Wirral 376 484
£ per annum Unfurnished Furnished WALES Clwyd 421 496 Dyfed 409 704 Gwent 409 492 Gwynedd 400 — Mid Glamorgan 377 642 Powys 390 — South Glamorgan 405 613 West Glamorgan 360 561 Notes on tables:
1. Rents include some service costs. These rents are not fully payable immediately; increases are phased in three annual instalments. The statistics are for rent officer registrations only (including re-registrations) and do not take account of any changes made by rent assessment committees on appeal.
2. The figures exclude both housing association tenancies and also initial registration following decontrol.
3. Rents determined by rent tribunals are not included.