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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what figures her Department uses for the population of (a) Cambridgeshire and (b) Peterborough; and if she will publish those figures.

The Department uses a range of statistics that have already been published by the Office for National Statistics. These published statistics include the national and subnational Estimates of the Population for England and Wales (available on gov.uk here), which are routinely published by the Office for National Statistics and include figures on the populations of both Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

For some of our analysis that require figures at household-level, such as our homelessness and rough sleeping analysis, we make use of the Office for National Statistics’ published 2018-Based Household Projections (available on gov.uk here).

Finally, we also make use of the Office for National Statistics’ census data (available on gov.uk here).

The Department does not use unpublished population figures generally or for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough specifically.