Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department made of rental prices prior to the decision to maintain the Local Housing Allowance levels.

Throughout the year, rent officers collect data about local market rents for both new tenancies and renewals of tenancies, which is available on: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/indexofprivatehousingrentalprices/september2021.