Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 69675

Private Rented Housing: Rents

Tabled: 21 July 2025

Answered: 3 September 2025

Question

David Simmonds

Conservative — Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner

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

Matthew Pennycook

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...

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