Rent Arrears (Hansard, 10 July 1980)

§ Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

In the year ending 31 March 1978, the latest for which information is available, the following local authorities issued five or more notices of distress per 1,000 dwellings:

DISTRICT COUNCILS

^*Aylesbury Vale
^*Babergh
^*Basildon
^*Beaconsfield
Berwick on Tweed
^*Blyth Valley
^*Braintree
^*Breckland
^*Brentwood
^*Burnley
^*Cambridge
^*Carmarthen
^*Carrick
^*Castle Point
^*Ceredigion
Charnwood
^*Chichester
Christchurch
^*Cleethorpes
^*Copeland
^*Craven
^*Darlington
Daventry
^*East Hants
^*East Herts
^*Easington
East Northants
East Staffs
^*Fareham
^*Gillingham
^*Great Yarmouth
^*Guildford
^*Harlow
^*Harrogate
^*Hastings
^*Horsham
Kettering
Lewes
^*Luton
^*Macclesfield
Malvern
^*Mid Sussex
Milton Keynes
^*Monmouth
^*Montgomery
New Forest
^*North Beds
North Cornwall
^*North Dorset
^*N.W. Leics
Nottingham
^*Pendle
^*Penwith
^*Portsmouth
^*Preseli
Richmondshire
Rochford
St. Albans
^*Slough
^*Southampton
South Beds
^*Southend-on-Sea
^*South Hams
^*South Cambs
^*Shepway
^*South Northants
^*South Herefordshire
^*South Lakeland
^*South Wight
^*Stratford-on-Avon
^*Suffolk Coastal
^*Tandridge
^*Test Valley
Thamesdown
^*Tunbridge Wells
^*Vale of Glamorgan
^*Warwick
^*Wear Valley
^*Welwyn-Hatfield
West Wilts
^*West Norfolk
^*Winchester
^*Windsor & Maidenhead
Worthing
^*Wychavon
^*Wycombe

LONDON BOROUGHS

^*Barking
^*Bromley
Croydon
Ealing
^*Harrow
^*Lewisham
^*Merton
^*Redbridge

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COUNCILS

Bradford
^*Calderdale
^*Doncaster
^*Dudley
^*Gateshead
^*Newcastle-upon-Tyne
^*North Tyneside
^*Rotherham
^*Sunderland

Authorities marked with an asterisk are those which distrained goods on any occasion during that year.