§ Mr. WinnickTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the average weekly rent for rented accommodation in London, the south-east, the midlands and the private sector which has been let in the last 12 months.
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 14 April 1993]: On the basis of data from the 1991 family expenditure survey it is estimated that the average weekly rent in 1991 for all households in rented accommodation that they had moved into in the previous 12 months was £47. The average for 679W those households renting in the private sector, excluding housing association properties, was £65. The sample on which these figures are based is relatively small and the estimates are, therefore, subject to quite large sampling error. The sample size of the FES is too small to provide satisfactory estimates for individual regions.