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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the average increase in rent for private properties in Stockport constituency in the last 12 months; what assessment he had made of the affordability of rent increases for people on average earnings in Stockport constituency; and if he will make a statement.

The Office for National Statistics publishes data on average rents online as part of its Index of Private Housing Rental Prices. Private rented sector affordability also forms part of the English Housing Survey.

Regional affordability analysis will be published in the supplementary Private Rented Sector Report later this year.