PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing: Costs (13 January 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information he holds on monthly housing costs as a proportion of income (a) in each region, (b) among different types of tenure and (c) in other categories; and what assessment he has made of trends in the level of that proportion in those categories.

Asked by:
Damian Hinds (Conservative)

MHCLG routinely reports housing costs as a proportion of income by tenure in the English Housing Survey (EHS) Headline Report. The most recent data are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2017-to-2018-headline-report (see Annex Table 1.13)

The latest assessment of housing costs as a proportion of income by region and other characteristics can be found in the following reports:

• For the private rented sector, see: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2017-to-2018-private-rented-sector (see Annex Table 2.3).
• For the social rented sector, see: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2017-to-2018-social-rented-sector (see Annex Table 2.14).
• And for households with a mortgage, see: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2017-to-2018-home-ownership (see Annex Table 2.2).

Answered by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)
21 January 2020