PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(5 December 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the amount of social housing available for families in need of housing support who need four or more bedrooms.

Asked by:
Ellie Chowns (Green Party)

Data is collected on the number of households on local authority housing registers requiring three or more bedrooms. This stood at 69,434 as of 31 March 2024. Data on households requiring four or more bedrooms is not collected but will be a subset of this number (Source: Section C, Local Authority Housing Statistics 2023-24. Please note the data in the table covers both general needs and supported housing lettings).

In 2023/24 there were 41,159 new general needs social housing lettings with three or more bedrooms, of which 4,163 were lettings with 4 or more bedrooms. (Source: Table 2c (Social_housing_lettings_in_England_tenancies_summary_tables_April_2023_to_March_2024.ods. Please note the data in the table only covers general need lettings as the number of bedrooms is not collected for supported housing lettings).

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