Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the level of rent increases in the private rented sector in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018 in England.

The Office for National Statistics publish an experimental Index of Private Housing Rental Prices which is available at: www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/indexofprivatehousingrentalprices/september2017