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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on rent levels in the private rented sector in each London borough in each year since 2010-11.

The Valuation Office Agency publishes information about median private sector rents by local authority district. The most recent Valuation Office Agency data is for the 12 months to the end of September 2014 and can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/private-rental-market-statistics

The Valuation Office Agency advises that because the composition of this sample changes over time, it is not possible to compare median rents provided in this publication with statistics in previous publications to infer trends in the rental market over time.

The Office for National Statistics also produces an index on private sector rents for London as a whole; its figures show that rents have fallen in real terms in London since 2010.