§ Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will state the average rent fixed for private tenants on re-registration over the last six years, both nationally and regionally, showing the figures year by year.
§ Sir George YoungFigures are available of rents fixed by rent officers for regulated unfurnished tenancies in each rent assessment panel area. The analyses excluded housing
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Rents fixed by rent officers England and Wales: by rent assessment panel area mean re-registered rents £ per annum 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 Northern 257 298 338 391 452 530 Yorkshire 287 318 365 420 497 586 East Midlands 282 360 406 448 575 641 Eastern 390 471 504 593 694 742 Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire 359 449 482 526 662 732 Thames Valley 363 466 523 555 Kent 342 458 558 647 777 858 Surrey and Sussex 422 507 552 651 associations and are of re-registrations in comparable cases: that is rents fixed within three to four years of previous rent registration, where there has been no material change to either the terms of the tenancy or the conditions of the dwelling.
In any year average rent charged is lower than the average fixed, because increases on re-registration are generally phased-in and then held until the next re-registration.
The following are the figures and the corresponding figures for England and Wales as a whole.
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1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 Greater London 523 605 669 754 881 982 Southern 354 439 461 535 657 704 Bristol 406 480 517 594 696 769 Devon and Cornwall 409 453 521 587 685 760 Wales 277 332 399 434 539 585 West Midlands 312 384 450 519 618 685 Merseyside and Cheshire 236 329 351 374 492 515 Greater Manchester and Lancashire 251 318 363 378 493 552 England and Wales 367 441 488 561 659 738