§ Mr. StreeterTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing English local authorities' own estimates of both former and current tenants' rent arrears at 31 March(a) by cash value and (b) as a percentage of the rent roll.
§ Sir George Young[holding answer 19 May 1993]I have now placed information in the Library on local authority rent arrears at 31 March 1992. It has not been practice in recent years to make available local authority's latest estimates of rent arrears. I shall let my hon. Friend have provisional figures for the year to 31 March 1993 later in the summer, once my officials have had the opportunity to validate the data.