Council Housing

(asked on 23rd March 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people awaiting a council property in England.


Answered by
Christopher Pincher Portrait
Christopher Pincher
This question was answered on 13th April 2021

The number of households in local authorities' waiting lists by local authority and region in each year since 1997 is reported in live table 600 which is published here https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-rents-lettings-and-tenancies. The latest available figures relate to 31 March 2020.

The number of households on the waiting list is not the same as the number of households waiting. Households may apply to multiple authorities and authorities only periodically review their lists to remove households who no longer require housing, so the total number of households on waiting lists is likely to overstate the number of households who still require housing. The frequency of reviews varies considerably and waiting list size may also be affected by other factors.

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