Rents (Hansard, 10 November 1992)

§ Mr. Raynsford
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he received from the Housing Corporation a report entitled "Rents and Affordability": and if he will make a copy available in the Library.

§ Mr. Baldry
We received a paper on this topic from the Housing Corporation in early October. It proposes to publish its work shortly. I will then arrange for a copy to be placed in the House of Commons Library.
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§ Mr. Barry Field
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what studies he has made of the difference between rents charged by local authorities and housing associations.

§ Mr. Baldry
A table comparing local authority rents with private sector rents, including those of housing associations, can be found in the Department's annual report 1992, page 93.
The Department collects information on local authority rents and housing association rents regularly.
Information on assured housing association rents is contained in the National Federation of Housing Association's continuous recording (core) quarterly bulletins. Information on registered housing association rents is collected by rent officers and published by the Department of the Environment on a quarterly basis in a series of statistical bulletins.
Data on local authority rents are collected annually. Average weekly local authority rents at April each year appear in table 11.1 of "Housing and Construction Statistics 1981–1991".
Copies of all these publications are available in the House of Commons Library.