Social Rented Housing

(asked on 3rd November 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people seeking social housing who are (a) single mothers and (b) families who have children with special educational needs.


Answered by
Christopher Pincher Portrait
Christopher Pincher
This question was answered on 8th November 2021

The proportion of single mothers who acquired a new social housing letting in 2019/2020 was 20.1% of all new lettings. In 2018/19 single mothers made up 19% of all new lettings.

We do not collect information on whether families with children who are seeking social housing have children with special educational needs. The proportion of families who acquired a new social housing letting in 2019/2020 was 10.4% of all new lettings.

This information is published on CORE social housing lettings at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/social-housing-lettings-in-england-april-2019-to-march-2020

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