PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing: Construction (11 May 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of new homes that were (a) granted planning permission and (b) built in each year since 2015.

Asked by:
James Wild (Conservative)

Figures for total housing units granted permission are shown in Table 5 of the latest planning applications statistics release, at the following link.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planning-applications-in-england-october-to-december-2020


Estimates of building control reported new build dwellings completions are shown in Live Tables 253a (quarterly) and 244 (annual), at the following link.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building

These cover new build dwellings only and should be regarded as a leading indicator of overall housing supply.

The Department also publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply.

Answered by:
Christopher Pincher (Independent)
19 May 2021