Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with refence to his Department's oral statement of 18 December 2025 on Local Government Reorganisation, Official Report col 1132, what information his Department holds comparing the rate of housebuilding in reorganised council areas compared to before they were reorganised.

The requested information is not held by my Department.

Housebuilding data is collected on current local authority district boundaries only, in accordance with the single data list which can be found on gov.uk here.

My Department publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply. This includes estimates of net additional homes in each local authority, in each financial year, from 2012-13 to 2024-25. This data can be found in Live Table 123 on gov.uk here.