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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) number of households in England that have rent arrears as a result of the covid-19 outbreak and (b) proportion of those households that will be supported through the £65 million funding his Department announced on 23 October 2021.

I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave to Question UIN 73864 on 22 November 2021.