Social Rented Housing: Rents

(asked on 25th June 2018) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many households in the social rented sector in England in 2010 were paying (1) social rents, (2) affordable rent, (3) market rent, and (4) other terms; and how many were paying each in the last year for which figures are available.


This question was answered on 9th July 2018

The Department does not hold information on the number of social tenant households split by social and affordable rent. In England the English Housing Survey estimates the total number of households in the social rented sector as 3.9 million in 2017/18.

The Department holds data on the amount of stock owned by Local Authorities broken down by Social Rent and Affordable Rent, this information has been provided in table1 (attached)

Data on Private Registered Provider owned stock is collected by Homes England. The number of Private Registered Provider stock is split by all social stock and units for affordable rent, this information has been provided in table 2 (attached).

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