Private Rented Housing
(asked on 28th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, they have made of the demand and supply problem in the private rented sector; and if they have not conducted such an assessment, what plans they have to do so.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The English Housing Survey provides information on households and housing stock. The proportion of Private Rented Sector (PRS) households has remained relatively stable for nearly a decade. The PRS was 19% of households in 2013-14 and continues to be at 19% according to the latest data for 2022, collected during the pandemic.
The Department continues to monitor private rent levels using the Office for National Statistics' Index of Private Rents as an indicator of demand. This data shows that Private rental prices paid by tenants in the UK increased by 4.0% in the 12 months to November 2022.