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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March to Question 130546, if he will place in the Library a copy of the evidence to which he has had regard of the extent to which the area as a whole is currently meeting its housing needs.

I will place in the Library of the House a copy of the evidence to which the Secretary of State had regard, which is drawn from published data on net additional dwelling statistics available at www.gov.uk/government/collections/net-supply-of-housing and on the levels of housing need in area, available at www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-for-the-right-homes-in-the-right-places-consultation-proposals.