Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the prevalence of damp and mould in social housing in (a) High Peak constituency and (b) Derbyshire.

The English Housing Survey sets out levels of overcrowding, damp and mould in people’s homes and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey. In 2022/23 the survey found that 19% of homes in the East Midlands did not meet the Decent Homes standard. Nationwide, 10% of private renters were living with damp and mould, followed by 7% of local authority renters, 4% of those in housing associations and 2% of owner occupiers. The survey found 12% of households that were overcrowded were likely to live in a home with damp problems present compared with 4% of those that were not overcrowded.

We are committed to decent, warm and safe homes of all tenures, and will say more on raising standards across the country this autumn.