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Social Rented Housing

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 1 April 2026UIN 123485

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Department has considered collecting, or asking local authorities to collect, nationality data for all members of households allocated social housing, rather than only the lead tenant, to improve understanding of who is being housed and to support effective service planning.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook

Social housing lettings data collected through the Continuous Recording (CORE) system focuses on the "lead tenant" (or Household Reference Person) in order to create accurate, consistent, and manageable demographic profiles of households, rather than trying to track every individual member. My Department has no current plans to amend commonly record data collected through the CORE system.

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