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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of the sale of high-value local authority housing on the cost to the public purse of housing benefit.

Through the Local Government Transparency Code we require all councils to be more transparent about the value of their social housing stock.

The Department has not made an estimate of the number of the most expensive third of local authority properties that will become vacant each year.