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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has plans to work with the English Housing Survey to gather information on private room renting in England.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government funds the English Housing Survey to collect information about the housing circumstances and the physical condition of homes in England. Every year, the survey interviews around 13,300 households and carries out a physical inspection of 6,200 homes. Included in the interview are questions about whether anyone living in the accommodation pays rents to the household as a lodger.