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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many (a) new-build planning approvals were granted and (b) how many new houses were built in Telford constituency in each year since 2010.

1. Numbers of major and minor residential planning applications decided by each local authority district, in the year to 30 September 2017, are shown in Live Table P136 at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics

Earlier versions of table P136 are also available from the same link:

• those for years ending July 2012 to June 2017 are under the heading, “Historical Live Tables”, and

• those for years ending September 2010 to June 2012 are available from the relevant link to the National Archives.

These statistics are not available by parliamentary constituency.

2. Estimates of house building for new build dwellings completions for England and in each local authority district, to September quarter 2017, are shown in Live Table 253a 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.

These statistics are not available by parliamentary constituency.