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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people have been removed from social housing because they did not have succession rights to remain following the death of the previous sole or joint tenant in each year since 2012 .

The Department does not hold this information.

There is nothing to prevent a local authority or Private Registered Provider of social housing from granting a new tenancy to a person who remains in the property but has no right to succeed, either in the same property or a different property. This is provided that doing so is in line with their own policies for allocating tenancies, which in the case of local authorities, must prioritise those in housing need.