Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of rent arrears in social housing.

According to the Homes and Communities Agency, at the end of 2013/14 the average level of rent arrears among larger housing associations was 3.6 per cent, an improvement from 4.1 per cent over the previous quarter.