Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made made of the average monthly cost of private rent in West Yorkshire in 2020.
For the latest year (to March 2021) the average monthly private rent in the West Yorkshire metropolitan area was £643 per month (mean) or £595 per month (median).
Full rental estimates are available through the following dataset: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/datasets/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland.