asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many
percentage changes in the needs element payments to each class of authority under the main RSG ordrers:
occupiers of houses with ground rents are paying less than £2 per annum ground rent.
This information is not available.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many applications have been made to his Department for the formal apportionment of ground rents; how many have been successful; and how many applications have been refused or been subject to orders for direct redemption.
About 300 such applications, involving a much larger number of properties, are received annually and the majority are successful. Applications are refused only if there is some legal or other impediment to the making of an apportionment order, but many orders take effect only on the redemption of apportioned rents of £2 per annum or less. Precise figures are not readily available.