Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has plans to undertake an assessment of the impact of the covid-19 outbreak on Black renters.
The Department gathers a range of evidence to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on renters. In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Department commissioned the Household Resilience Study – a follow-up to the English Housing Survey, conducted in 3 waves between June 2020 and May 2021. The research collected examines how households have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, and includes information on protected characteristics, including ethnicity.
The third and final wave of the survey was run in April-May 2021 and published in October 2021. Data tables and a report of the main findings are provided on Gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/household-resilience-study-wave-3.
We consider the impact of all decisions on those with protected characteristics, including on different ethnicities, in line with the Public Sector Equality Duty.