HC Deb 26 October 1983 vol 47 cc107-9W
15. Mr. Ron Davies

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will estimate the percentage by which the rents of local authority houses are likely to rise in April 1984.

Mr. Gow

My right hon. Friend will be issuing a consultation paper shortly about the proposed level of local contributions for housing subsidy purposes in England in 1984–85. Rent increases are a matter for decision by individual authorities.

Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many and which local authorities are making a profit on council house rents.

Sir George Young

On information currently available from local authorities, 76 authorities estimate that they will make net transfers from their housing revenue account to their general rate fund, during 1983–84.

The authorities are set out as attached. The source of this list is the second advance claim forms submitted by authorities. At todays date nine claims are outstanding.

LIST OF AUTHORITIES WHO ESTIMATE MAKING NET TRANSFERS FROM THEIR HRA TO THEIR GRF IN I983–84

Greater London

  • Barking and Dagenham
  • Bromley
  • Ealing
  • Havering
  • Hillingdon
  • Kingston-upon-Thames

West Midlands

  • Dudley

Avon

  • Wansdyke
  • Woodspring

Berkshire

  • Slough
  • Windsor and Maidenhead

Buckinghamshire

  • Beaconsfield

Cambridgeshire

  • East Cambridgeshire
    • 108
  • Fenland

Cheshire

  • Congleton

Cornwall

  • Carrick
  • Penwith
  • Restormel

Cumbria

  • South Lakeland

Devon

  • East Devon
  • Exeter
  • North Devon
  • South Hams
  • Torbay

Dorset

  • Bournemouth
  • North Dorset
  • West Dorset
  • Wimborne

East Sussex

  • Brighton
  • Eastbourne
  • Hove

Essex

  • Brentwood
  • Castlepoint
  • Colchester
  • Epping Forest
  • Maldon
  • Rochford
  • Tendring
  • Uttlesford

Gloucestershire

  • Cheltenham
  • Tewkesbury

Hampshire

  • Havant

Hertfordshire

  • Broxbourne
  • Dacorum
  • Three Rivers

Humberside

  • Cleethorpes

Isle of Wight

  • South Wight

Kent

  • Shepway
  • Tonbridge and Malling

Lancashire

  • Lancaster
  • Rossendale
  • West Lancashire

Leicestershire

  • Harborough
  • Hinkley and Bosworth

Norfolk

  • Breckland

Northamptonshire

  • South Northampton

North Yorkshire

  • Hambleton
    • 109
  • Scarborough

Nottinghamshire

  • Mansfield

Oxfordshire

  • South Oxfordshire
  • Vale of White Horse

Shropshire

  • North Shropshire

Surrey

  • Elmbridge
  • Guildford
  • Runnymede
  • Spelthorne
  • Surrey Heath
  • Tandridge
  • Waverley
  • Woking

Warwickshire

  • Statford-on-Avon

West Sussex

  • Chichester
  • Horsham
  • Mid Sussex
  • Worthing

Wiltshire

  • West Wiltshire

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