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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people (a) under 18 and (b) under 16 years of age have been allocated social housing since 2013; and what proportion of such people had children of their own.

Information on social housing lettings is collected in the Department through the COntinuous REcording of Social lettings (CORE). From April 2013 to March 2014, there were 8,597 social housing lettings made to people under 18 years old, 9% (738) of which lived with a child in the same household. Of these, 14 tenants were under 16 and 21% (3) of them had a child in the same household.