asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the operating profit and the total financial turnover, respectively, of the British Waterways Board, Freight Services Division, for each of the years 1963, 1968 and 1970.

I am informed by the board that results for its freight services for these years were:

An analysis of about 22,000 registrations for which case records reached the Department between January and September, 1971, showed that the proportion of dwellings for which the fair rent exceeded 2·5 times gross value was 10 per cent. and that the proportion for which the fair rent was less than 1·5 times gross value was 9 per cent.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the number of dwellings for which fair rents have been determined which exceed twice the gross value of the property concerned.

An analysis of about 22,000 registrations, for which case records reached the Department's computer between January and September, 1971, showed that in 9,980 cases the fair rent was equal to, or exceeded, twice the gross value of the dwelling concerned, but in nearly half of these—4,659 cases—the fair rent was less than 2·2 times the gross value.