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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of help to buy properties which are (a) leasehold and (b) freehold.

The Department’s statistics on the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme are published and available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-buy-equity-loan-scheme-and-help-to-buy-newbuy-statistics-april-2013-to-march-2017

This includes Tables 9, 9b and 9c with completions by property type and tenure (freehold and leasehold) on a cumulative, quarterly and local authority basis.