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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of new houses sold as leasehold properties in each of the last five years.

Information on the number of transactions on new build houses where the property was sold as leaseholds is available through Land Registry Price Paid data. This data is available from 1995 onwards.

This information can be accessed here: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/land-registry-monthly-price-paid-data

The Department for Communities and Local Government has recently concluded a public consultation, Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market, which sought views on a range of proposed measures to help tackle abuse of the leasehold system including the sale of new build leasehold houses. The responses are being analysed and Government will publish an official response in due course.