asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the approximate average increase in rents, when taken out of their present control and put through the machinery of the rent officer and the rent assessment committee, compared with the 2·6 times increase stated in 1969 by the then Housing Minister.

I would refer the hon. Member to the reply my right hon. Friend gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Dorset, South (Mr. Evelyn King) on 25th November, 1970.—[Vol. 807, c. 133–34.]