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

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of council housing sales have contributed to the construction of new social and affordable housing over each of the last five years.

Net receipts arising from Right to Buy sales received by local housing authorities between 01 April 2012 to 31 March 2017 could contribute up to 30% to the authorities’ expenditure on replacement social housing.

The same type of receipts received between 01 April 2017 and 31 March 2019 could contribute up to 40% to the same type of expenditure.

The same type of receipts from 01 April 2019 onwards can contribute up to 100% to this expenditure.

The number of new build completions funded through Right to Buy receipts can be found in Live Table 693 which can be found on gov.uk here, while the total number of new build completions of affordable housing can be found in Live Table 1009 which can be found on gov.uk here.