Written questions

Private Rented Housing: Rents

Commons · Question 69675 · Tabled 21 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 3 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by David Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2025 to Question 66191 on Private Rented Housing: Rents, whether she has made an assessment of the reasons for those increases.

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 3 Sep 2025

The factors affecting changes in rents are complex and difficult to disentangle. They include house prices, supply and demand, taxation policy, interest rates and the movement of tenants into homeownership or social rented housing. It is not possible to a...