Social Rented Housing: Overcrowding

(asked on 6th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the level of home overcrowding in social rented sector.


Answered by
Lord Sharma Portrait
Lord Sharma
This question was answered on 14th December 2017

Levels of overcrowding in the social rented sector are assessed using the Department's English Housing Survey and according to the 'Bedroom Standard'.

Overcrowding figures are published on Gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/658479/2015-16_Section_1_Households_Annex_Tables.xlsx (see AT 1.20)

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