Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2023 to Question 156110 on Local Housing Allowance: Rents, if he will make an estimate of the number and proportion of Broad Rental Market Areas in which the LHA meets the 30th percentile of local rents.

The latest available data on the 30th percentile of local rents is for the twelve months to September 2022. At the Broad Rental Market Area (BRMA) level, there is no BRMA in Great Britain where all five LHA rates meet the latest 30th percentile of local rents. Of the 960 LHA rates nationally, 45 are at or above the latest 30th percentile, equivalent to 4.7% of rates.