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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of the covid-19 outbreak on the number of households in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England that have fallen into rent arrears with (i) private landlords and (ii) social housing providers.

The Household Resilience Study is a follow up study to the 2019-20 English Housing Survey. It examines how household and housing circumstances have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Household Resilience Study Wave 3 results are based on surveys conducted between April-May 2021.

In England, 93% of private renters and 87% of social renters were up to date with rent payments.

Geographical findings are available at regional level. 80% of private sector renters and 88% of social renters in the West Midlands are up to date with rent payments.

Data on households by region is available in Table 15a and by tenure in Table 15b of the Household Resilience Study: Wave 3 tables: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/household-resilience-study-wave-3