Private Rented Housing: Housing Benefit
(asked on 6th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 214495 on Private Rented Housing: Housing Benefit, if he will ask the UK Statistics Authority to collect data on the number of fines brought by local authorities against private landlords.
This question was answered on 11th February 2019
We have no plans to collect this information centrally. It is for local authorities to decide how they work with private landlords in their area and we want to minimise the reporting burden on them.