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

To ask His Majesty's Government what is their latest assessment of the level of overcrowding in the social housing sector.

Data on the levels of overcrowding can be found in the English Housing Survey 2021 to 2022: social rented sector report

We are committed to reducing overcrowding and the length of social housing waiting lists, by increasing the supply of affordable housing and enabling councils and other social landlords to make better use of their existing stock.

That is why since 2010, we have delivered over 659,500 new affordable homes, including over 468,700 affordable homes for rent, of which over 166,300 homes for social rent. Our £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme will deliver thousands of affordable homes for both rent and to buy right across the country, and we have also recently launched our £750 million Local Authority Housing Fund.