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Mr. Fearn
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the number of short assured tenancies for the year 1991.
Mr. Yeo
The numbers of assured shorthold tenancies can only be estimated from survey evidence. The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 1990 private renters survey estimated that there was a total of 136,000 assured shorthold tenancies in mid-1990. This is the most recent figure available.