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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) bungalows and (b) four bedroom homes were available for social rent in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

The Department’s English Housing Survey collects information about the type of housing stock in the social rented sector, irrespective of whether it is available to rent.

The English Housing Survey can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2015-to-2016-headline-report.

In 2015 (the latest date for which data are available), there were an estimated 421,000 bungalows in the social rented sector. There were an estimated 138,000 four bedroom homes in the sector.