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Local Government Finance

Volume 456: debated on Wednesday 7 February 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the total additional rental income each local authority will receive up to 2011 on the basis of rent outstanding. (107138)

Local authorities are responsible for setting their own rents and typically do so after the annual Housing Revenue Account Subsidy Determination has been issued each December; consequently we cannot predict their individual decisions, which will be taken according to local factors, existing stock levels and status and the data available to them in each annual determination and so do not estimate what actual rents may total between now and 2011.

Communities and Local Government keeps no record of what unpaid, additional, outstanding rent may be owed to local authorities to 2011.