§ Mr. SoleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what is his latest estimate of the average annual income of(a) home owners who own their own home outright, (b) owner-occupiers buying their homes with a mortgage, (c) council tenants, (d) housing association tenants and (e) tenants of private landlords;
(2) if he will publish a table giving the most recent information available on the gross average household income of local authority tenants, housing association tenants, private tenants and owner occupiers, with and without mortgages (a) for households in employment, (b) for pensioner households and (c) for other households.
§ Mrs. RoeThe most recent estimates of gross average household income are from the 1986 family expenditure survey. The estimates for England are shown in the table.
estimated at £22,000. No figure is available for the annual debt charges for the average new council dwelling. According to information provided by local authorities to the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, the average rent in April 1987 charged for new council dwellings completed in 1986–87 was £19.20 a week.