Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for
Communities and Local Government, what his most recent assessment is of the
extent to which private landlords are unwilling to let to tenants on housing
benefit; and if he will make a statement.
Gavin Barwell: The English Housing Survey Headline Report
2015-16 (published March 2017) shows that 24 per cent of households privately
renting are in receipt of housing benefit. This suggests that recipients of
housing benefit are able to access the sector.
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