HC Deb 07 February 1996 vol 271 cc200-1W
Ms Coffey

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many appeals were made by(a) tenants and (b) landlords against rent officers' determinations of rent broken down into secure tenants of housing associations and regulated tenants of private landlords by rent office district. [13707]

Mr. Clappison

Rent assessment committees do not record for statistical purposes whether the appellant against a rent officer determination is the landlord or the tenant. Nor do they distinguish between secure tenants of housing associations and regulated private tenants. Statistics are available for the total number of registered fair rent appeal cases dealt with by rent assessment committees by rent regulation area. A table giving figures for each of the last six years is given:

Registration area 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
Humberside 351 448 356 226 87 123
Isle of Wight 74 26 30 12 30 24
Kent 244 337 456 253 295 97
Lancashire 214 121 176 733 452 530
Leicestershire 299 106 286 97 209 61
Lincolnshire 92 74 24 67 76 48
Merseyside 3,065 1,767 3,492 1,993 1,169 1,026
Norfolk 122 106 88 97 139 104
Northumberland 162 68 81 74 124 27
Northamptonshire 189 35 81 57 18 61
North Yorkshire 58 68 153 133 84 77
Nottinghamshire 747 533 319 512 259 259
Oxfordshire 47 62 38 368 104 50
Shropshire 64 24 22 47 19 62
Somerset 24 28 18 46 32 36
South Yorkshire 237 222 316 213 271 294
Staffordshire 462 250 282 297 302 230
Suffolk 94 56 54 102 68 98
Surrey 98 99 292 146 186 159
Tyne and Wear 140 180 223 384 363 181
Warwickshire 172 76 161 103 111 62
West Midlands 721 1,243 647 797 436 856
West Sussex 53 300 132 146 162 145
West Yorkshire 564 460 504 609 574 489
Wiltshire 95 105 33 73 36 25
16,961 17,835 20,294 18,219 14,639 12,708