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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress he has made on building one million new homes by 2020 since the announcement by the Prime Minister on 12 October 2015.

We have made good progress so far with 189,650 new homes delivered in 2015/16, up 11 per cent on 2014-15. However, there is clearly more to do and our forthcoming White Paper will set out a comprehensive package of reform to deliver the homes this country needs.

The Department publishes statistics on net additions which are available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-net-supply-of-housing