Only 61 criminal landlords have been placed on the Rogue Landlord Database since its set up in April 2018. This is 61 out of an estimated (by the Government as justification for the database) 10,500 operating in the private rented sector nationally. The number was provided by housing minister Eddie Hughes MP to Labour MP Gill Furniss's 25 January 2022 request for an update on the current number of entries on the database.

The Guidance for Local Authorities sets out the criteria for when authorities "must" or "should" enter a landlord onto the database so, there should be many more entries by now but if many authorities haven't used this tool its likely due to lack of resources both in staff and finances rather than ignorance. Part of the consultation on the proposed National Landlord Register will thus need to cover off the issue of and reasons for none use, even by many of the authorities running licensing schemes, of the Rogue Landlord Database