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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have been provided with alternative social housing as a result of being removed from existing social housing for which they are no longer eligible following the death of the previous tenant.

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.