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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 September 2020 to Question 87573 on Private Rented Housing: Rents, what statistics the Government is collecting on the number of people in the private rented sector who are in arrears.

The Government has established an unprecedented package of support to protect renters throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, and as with all policy making, this is informed by a range of data sources.