asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will amend the Housing Finance Act 1972 to provide an independent appeals procedure for local authorities and council tenants in disagreement with the fair rents fixed by rent scrutiny boards.

No. Where it disagrees with the assessment of a local authority a rent scrutiny board is already required by law to consider representations from the council. All authorities have been advised to seek and consider the views of tenants before making such representations.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT the names of all urban district councils which have written to him about the powers of the rent scrutiny board.

Aberdare, Ammanford and Knighton urban district councils.