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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the net addition of social rented housing in England since 2010 taking into account (a) demolitions, (b) sales and (c) conversions.

The Department does not produce estimates of net additions to the social housing sector, as not all the information on losses is collected to create such estimate. Information is not collected on losses to stock owned by non-registered providers; losses through conversions for smaller private registered providers or local authority stock held outside a Housing Revenue Account; and data on any other losses are not collected except for larger private registered providers (e.g. change of use).

Data on gross additions to the social housing sector are available on live tables 1000 or 1000C which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply

The available data on sales and demolitions are available in tables 678 and 684 which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales

The total size of the social housing stock rented from local authorities or private registered providers in England is published in live table 104 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants