Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Housing – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 June 1947.
Mr Barnett Janner
, Leicester West
12:00,
19 June 1947
asked the Minister of Health in how many cases of contracts for furnished lettings reported under the provisions of the Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Act, 1946, to the tribunals in Leicester and Leicestershire, respectively, have those tribunals reduced the rents payable by the tenants; by what approximate percentages; and in how many of these cases were the dwellinghouses concerned within the provisions of the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Act, 1939, being dwelling-houses which were then let at the first rental which has been charged for them.
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