§ Mr. Michael Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many shorthold agreements there have been from the inception of the scheme to the latest available date; and what is the geographical spread in the most convenient form.
§ Mr. StanleyUp to 28 August the number of rent registrations in England and Wales where applicants had indicated that their letting was a shorthold is set out in the following table.
It should be emphasised, however, that the figures do not represent the total number of shorthold lettings taking place for the following reasons: first, because the question on the application form is a voluntary one; secondly, because shorthold lettings where a fair rent has already been registered cannot be identified until the rent is reregistered, which may not be for up to three years; and, thirdly, because an application for a fair rent need not be made until 28 days after the start of the tenancy in cases where no fair rent is registered and some applications already made by 28 August would still be being processed.
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Number of Fair Rents Registered for Shorthold Tenancies 28 August 1981 By rent registration area London Barking 1 Barnet 41 Bexley 3 Brent 5 Bromley 11 City of London — Camden 16 Croydon 19 Ealing 11 Enfield 11 Greenwich 11 Hackney 3 Hammersmith 2 Haringey 8 Harrow 12 Havering 7 Hillingdon 11 Hounslow 6 Islington 1 Kensington and Chelsea 5 Kingston upon Thames 18 Lambeth — Lewisham 3 Merton 6
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By rent registration area Newham 5 Redbridge 1 Richmond upon Thames 9 Southwark 7 Sutton 13 Tower Hamlets 1 Waltham Forest 4 Wandsworth 29 Westminster 12 London subtotal 292 Rest of England Avon 90 Bedfordshire 24 Berkshire 72 Buckinghamshire 66 Cambridgeshire 55 Cheshire 51 Cleveland 7 Cornwall 124 Cumbria 74 Derbyshire 72 Devon 185 Dorset 122 Durham 27 East Sussex 126 Essex 151 Gloucestershire 60 Greater Manchester 56 Hampshire 107 Hereford and Worcester 92 Hertfordshire 29 Humberside 35 Isle of Wight 27 Kent 215 Lancashire 83 Leicestershire 43 Lincolnshire 49 Merseyside 6 Norfolk 143 Northumberland 33 Northamptonshire 32 North Yorkshire 106 Nottinghamshire 67 Oxfordshire 67 Shropshire 53 Somerset 107 South Yorkshire 68 Staffordshire 39 Suffolk 75 Surrey 59 Tyne and Wear 44 Warwickshire 19 West Midlands 63 West Sussex 76 West Yorkshire 102 Wiltshire 45 Rest of England subtotal 3,246 ENGLAND TOTAL 3,538 Wales Clwyd 29 Dyfed 32 Gwent 16 Gwynedd 1 Mid-Glamorgan 5 Powys 16 South Glamorgan 3 West Glamorgan 15 Wales subtotal 117
By rent registration area ENGLAND AND WALES TOTAL 3,655