Question follow-through · 88740
Social Rented Housing: Arrears
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of (a) rent arrears and (b) tenant to landlord debt in the social housing sector in England.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of (a) rent arrears and (b) tenant to landlord debt in the social housing sector in England.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
The number of social rented households self-reporting that they had been in arrears can be found in the English Housing Survey on gov.uk here. The total amount due in arrears by local authority tenants, both current and previous, can be found in Section H...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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