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

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many social rented council houses have been converted to "Affordable Rent" in England since 2015; whether there has been a subsequent reduction in the housing stock of local authorities; and if so, what was that reduction.

The department does not hold data on tenure type changes, including conversions from social rent to affordable rent.

The Regulator of Social Housing publishes information on the number of conversions of social rent to affordable rent for properties owned by Private Registered Providers only through their Statistical Data Return, which is (attached) available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistical-data-return-statistical-releases

Information on the stock of social and affordable rent owned by local authorities is available in section A of the Local Authority Housing statistics data, which can be (attached) found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data