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Estimates of the number of households in England living in private rented accommodation in each of the last three years are:
Number of households in private rented accommodation in England 2005 2,385,000 2006 2,488,000 2007 2,595,000 Source: Labour Force Survey
These figures were published by the Department in December 2007 in ‘Survey of English Housing Preliminary Results: 2006-07’.