HC Deb 27 January 1988 vol 126 c277W
22. Mr. John Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the level of municipal rents in Scotland.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

Responsibility for setting rent levels for council housing lies with the individual local authority concerned. Average local authority rents in Scotland in 1987–788 stand at £14.65 per house per week. They have risen from an average of £4.92 per house per week in 1979–80, some 75 per cent. of the average for local authorities in England and Wales, to a level which is now 84 per cent. of the England and Wales average of £17.40 per week.