Social Rented Housing: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 29th January 2024) - View Source

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

To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of social homes outside London have a non-British citizen as the lead tenant.


Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook Portrait
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
This question was answered on 12th February 2024

Using English Housing Survey data, we estimate that in 2021-22, 6.8% of social households outside London had a household reference person who was not a UK or Irish national. For London, this figure is 14.7%.

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