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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the implications of data on population growth published by the Office for National Statistics in June 2015 for its forecasts of housing need and supply shortfall.

My Department publishes household projections that show the projected long term increase in households based on the latest Office for National Statistics population projections. The household projections will be updated in 2016 after the Office for National Statistics has published 2014-based sub-national population projections, which will be based on the most recent demographic trends.