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 number of houses that have been built in (a) Hertfordshire, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Surrey, (d) Northamptonshire and (e) Berkshire in each year since 2010.

Estimates of house building; new build dwellings completions for Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Surrey, Northamptonshire and Berkshire, in each year to March quarter 2019, are shown in Live Table 253 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

(a) The figures show 21,950 'house building; new build dwelling completions' in Hertfordshire since April 2010

(b) The figures show 20,990 'house building; new build dwelling completions' in Bedfordshire since April 2010

(c) The figures show 23,180 'house building; new build dwelling completions' in Surrey since April 2010

(d) The figures show 24,080 'house building; new build dwelling completions' in Northamptonshire since April 2010

(e) The figures show 20,290 'house building; new build dwelling completions' in Berkshire since April 2010.