Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2024 to Question 10700 on Social Rented Housing: Tenants, if he will start to hold the necessary data in order to provide an estimate of the number of social housing tenants in rent arrears due to 53 rent payment weeks in 2024.

We have no plans to collect this data because social tenant rent account balances are not required to calculate Universal Credit awards. Regulations only permit the collection of data that is pertinent to the calculation of a claimants Universal Credit award.