Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes have been built in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley local authority area, (c) South Yorkshire and (d) England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Statistics on additional affordable housing provided in each local authority area in England are published in the Department’s live tables 1006, 1006a, 1007 and 1008, which are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply

These figures include both newly built housing and acquisitions. The Department does not publish statistics on additional affordable housing for parliamentary constituencies or for Wales.