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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the net change was in the number of homes for social rent between 1984 and 1990.

Statistics on the amount of dwelling stock in England by tenure are published in the Department's live table 104, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants

Taken together, the Private Registered Provider (housing association) and local authority tenures provide an estimate of total social housing.