Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will make an estimate of the median time it took for a landlord to repossess a property in the residential sector in the last 12 months.

Landlord possession timeliness statistics are published here - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics-april-to-june-2022/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics-april-to-june-2022#landlord-possession-timeliness3.

Timeliness for landlord possession continues to improve. By Q2 2022, claim to possession order median timeliness had improved to 9.9 weeks from 21.7 weeks at the same point 12 months prior, claim to possession warrant median timeliness improved from 31.6 weeks to 15.9 weeks and claims to repossession median timeliness improved from 60.1 weeks is 23.4 weeks in the same time period.