Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of increases in rent on the rate of inflation.

Information on inflation in actual rentals for housing and its weight within the Consumer Prices Index can be found online at the following link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/datasets/consumerpriceinflation/current.