§ Ms CoffeyTo 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. ClappisonRent 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:
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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