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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many full time equivalent staff were employed by the Independent Housing Ombudsman in 2018-19; and how many of those staff were (a) caseworkers, (b) adjudicators and (c) review managers.

The full time equivalent of staff employed by the Housing Ombudsman Service in 2018-19 is 67.9.

The number of (a) caseworkers, (b) adjudicators and (c) dispute resolution managers is as follows:

a) Caseworkers (Dispute Resolution Advisors and Adjudicators): 41.6

b) Of which, Adjudicators: 25.6

c) Dispute Resolution Managers: 6.0