Local Authority Rents

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what have been the average annual rents for local authority dwellings for each year since 1967, shown at 1987 prices.

Annual average prices¹ of dwellings from 1969–87 at 1987 prices²
	Northern	Yorkshire and Humberside	East Midlands	East Anglia	Greater London	South East	South West	West Midlands	North West
1969	21,733	20,106	22,183	25,150	36,250	33,892	26,308	25,442	22,950
1970	21,678	19,985	21,810	24,829	37,846	34,222	26,831	24,692	23,009
1971	22,055	20,216	22,060	24,964	39,883	36,602	27,959	24,753	22,582
1972	25,391	22,891	26,367	32,981	52,129	46,504	36,452	29,238	26,850
1973	31,876	30,350	35,217	42,345	62,114	56,598	46,727	37,728	33,691
1974	31,286	30,711	34,053	40,741	55,046	51,671	43,001	37,984	32,938
1975	28,632	27,013	29,789	34,379	44,488	43,731	36,073	32,405	29,139
1976	26,748	25,576	27,242	30,323	39,832	39,785	33,273	29,737	26,868
1977	26,004	23,683	25,107	26,894	36,986	36,370	29,940	27,672	25,452
1978	26,604	24,677	26,127	28,489	39,078	38,579	31,620	29,252	27,351
¹ Prices of buildings society mortgage completions
² Prices adjusted to 1987 levels by Retail Prices Index movements

	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987
Northern	27,777	26,998	25,349	22,673	24,031	25,829	24,544	25,348	27,275
Yorkshire and Humberside	26,985	26,966	26,167	22,810	25,028	25,546	25,139	26,675	27,747
East Midlands	28,484	28,855	26,525	24,450	26,423	27,855	27,510	29,671	31,808
East Anglia	33,205	34,770	31,424	29,307	30,987	32,334	34,104	37,565	42,681
Greater London	46,393	47,209	41,913	38,534	41,556	44,960	47,720	57,152	66,024
South East	44,382	45,478	40,847	37,234	40,505	42,661	43,611	50,569	57,387
South West	36,862	38,558	34,565	32,012	33,590	34,980	35,491	40,144	44,728
West Midlands	33,263	33,024	29,646	26,338	27,479	28,555	27,850	29,623	32,657
North West	30,401	30,629	28,009	26,027	27,390	27,893	27,065	28,650	29,527

Estimates of financial year average unrebated rents for English local authorities, revalued to 1987 prices using the retail prices index, are as follows:

	£ per annum
1967–68	579
1968–69	600
1969–70	620
1970–71	644
1971–72	636
1972–73	658
1973–74	774
1974–75	697
1975–76	631
1976–77	629
1977–78	627
1978–79	612
1979–80	581
1980–81	630
1981–82	796
1982–83	875
1983–84	864
1984–85	867
1985–86	865
1986–87	884
1987–88	895

Volume 136: debated on Monday 27 June 1988