Registered provider social housing stock in England summary
Published 23 February 2021
Applies to England
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Introduction
Registered provider social housing stock in England – outlines the stock and rents units owned and managed by RPs.
These statistics are based on data we collect through the local authority data return and statistical data return. Data from these collections are presented separately in our other statistics. For more information see our statistics page.
This is the first year we have published these data in a combined format. The data is published in a single briefing note and is supplemented by technical notes and definitions and data quality and methodology notes. These notes provide additional information on our data collection and cleansing processes; key limitations with the data and provide additional context for the statistics presented.
Additional tables are also available with tools allowing for the interrogation of the data.
Coverage
These statistics provide information on social housing owned by all registered providers at 31 March each year. Unless otherwise stated, all figures in this document refer to stock located in England. The definitions used within the release are consistent with the way data was collected each year.
National Statistics status
These statistics are drawn from our PRP and LARP social housing stock and rents in England statistics which have been designated as National Statistics by the Office for Statistics Regulation. This briefing note provides additional insight, giving the fullest picture of stock and rent information for the social housing provision in England. For more information see the data quality and methodology note.
Key facts
4.4m units of social stock owned by RPs
- PRPs own 2.8m units compared to 1.6m units owned by LARPs.
84% of social stock is general needs
- Most social stock owned by RPs is general needs low cost rental (including Affordable Rent) (84% or 3.66 million units). Proportionally more LARP owned stock is general needs (93%) than PRP owned stock (78%).
0.3% increase in overall low cost rental stock since 2019
- This overall increase has been driven by the 28,218 unit increase in Affordable Rent units (which offsets the 15,647 reduction in social rent units).
A near 4% reduction in average rents since 2016
- LARPs and PRPs both report average net rent falls of nearly 4% for their general needs social rent stock.
Notes
Background
These statistics are based on data gathered in the LADR and SDR survey.
We use the LADR and SDR data extensively as a source of administrative data to inform our operational approach to regulation (see data quality and methodology note for more details). The United Kingdom Statistics Authority encourages public bodies to use administrative data for statistical purposes, as such, we publish these data annually.
Governance of data and statistics at RSH
The statistician responsible for the publication of these statistics is also responsible for the LADR and SDR data collections and the cleansing of incoming data; working with RPs to directly address anomalies within the data submissions and producing the final data set and statistics.
Responsible statistician: Amanda Hall Queries and feedback: enquiries@rsh.gov.uk or 0300 124 5225.
All data is stored and analysed within password-protected government secure networks and access to the sector level analysis work undertaken on the data is restricted until after publication (RP level data is accessed by our staff as part of operational work). Further information on the data quality assurance processes we employ is provided in data quality and methodology note.
Contact information submitted by RPs in the Entity Level Information sections of the surveys is redacted within the release. This contact information is not publicly available. We hold no other administrative data that can be made available for use in statistics. However, we publish a range of summary data from other information collected. These are available from our website.
More information and full report
The data is published in a single briefing note and is supplemented by technical notes and definitions and data quality and methodology notes. These notes provide additional information on our data collection and cleansing processes; key limitations with the data and provide additional context for the statistics presented.
Additional tables are also available with tools allowing for the interrogation of the data.