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Private Rented Housing: Evictions and Harassment

Question for Home Office

UIN HL13981, tabled on 8 March 2021

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) harassment, and (2) unlawful eviction, offences under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 have been recorded by each of the police forces in England and Wales in each of the past three financial years.

Answered on

22 March 2021

Offences of harassment and unlawful eviction, under the Protection from Eviction act 1977, are recorded by police in England and Wales as a subset of ‘Offence code 99, Other Notifiable Offences’. The Home Office publishes data on Police Recorded Crime by offence code.

The most recently published data, up to September 2020, can be found below: (see attached table)

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables

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