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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what comparative assessment he has made of the proportion of households renting privately in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside and (c) the North East and (d) other areas of the UK.

Data on households in the private rented sector in England and by region can be found on the Department's website. See ATs 1.1 and 1.2 here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676433/2016-17_Section_1_Households_Annex_Tables.xlsx

The Department does hold such data at local authority or constituency level.