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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the total number of Brownfield sites available for use in England.

My Department's analysis of data from local authority websites, including brownfield land registers, suggests that there are over 28,000 hectares of developable brownfield land across England, enough for at least a million dwellings. It should be noted, however, that brownfield land registers record only a subset of brownfield land: only that which is regarded as being suitable for housing and where certain criteria have been met.

The most relevant and up-to-date statistics published by the department are its Land use in England 2018 figures, which are available (attached) in several spreadsheets at:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use. These tables include regional breakdowns.