Veterans: Evictions
(asked on 20th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the number of veterans who have been evicted in each month of 2022.
The Ministry of Justice does not collect or hold any data on the occupation or previous occupations of defendants at any stage of possession proceedings up to and including eviction, nor whether parties to possession proceedings have served in the armed forces.
Official published statistics on possession volumes can be found here - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics.
CORE Social Housing Lettings data collected by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities provides information on new social housing lettings in England, including the percentage of veterans granted a new tenancy after being evicted from their previous home. This data is provided below.
Reason for leaving last settled home (where known) given by households in new social housing lettings, 2020/21
Source: CORE Social Housing Lettings
Reason for leaving last settled home | Formerly served in armed forces as a regular or reservist (% of all new social housing lettings to this group) | Never served in armed forces (% of all new social housing lettings to this group) |
End of Assured shorthold tenancy- on a ‘no fault’ basis | 3.6% | 3.2% |
End of Assured shorthold tenancy -eviction, tenant at fault | 0.7% | 0.3% |
End of Fixed Term tenancy - eviction, tenant at fault | 0.1% | 0.2% |
End of Fixed Term tenancy - on a ‘no fault’ basis | 2.2% | 1.9% |