Housing Completions

(asked on 14th November 2023) - View Source

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

To ask His Majesty's Government how many new homes were completed each year since 2005 for which figures are available.


Answered by
Baroness Penn Portrait
Baroness Penn
Minister on Leave (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State)
This question was answered on 28th November 2023

The department publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply, with estimates of new homes delivered, in each financial year shown in Table 1 below.

Table 1. Housing Supply Net Additional Dwellings, England, 2004-05 to 2021-221.

2004-05

185553

2005-06

202653

2006-07

214936

2007-08

223534

2008-09

182767

2009-10

144870

2010-11

137394

2011-12

134896

2012-13

124722

2013-14

136605

2014-15

170693

2015-16

189645

2016-17

217345

2017-18

222281

2018-19

241877

2019-20

242702

2020-21

211865

2021-22

232816

Source: Live Table 122,123 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-net-supply-of-housing

1 Net additional dwellings includes new builds but also dwellings supplied through conversions of existing buildings, change of existing buildings use, other gains/losses, offset by demolitions. The detail, with each component, is published in Live Table 123.

Estimates of the number of new homes delivered, broken down by flats or houses, are not centrally collected.

Estimates of the proportion of building control reported new build dwelling completions by flats or houses for England, in each financial year, are shown in Table 2 below. These cover new build dwellings only and should be regarded as a leading indicator of overall housing supply.

Table 2. Housebuilding: Percentage of permanent dwellings completed, by house and flats, England, 2004-05 to 2021-222.

House

Flats

2004-05

59

41

2005-06

54

46

2006-07

53

47

2007-08

52

48

2008-09

50

50

2009-10

55

45

2010-11

65

35

2011-12

64

36

2012-13

67

33

2013-14

71

29

2014-15

75

25

2015-16

77

23

2016-17

75

25

2017-18

77

23

2018-19

78

22

2019-20

80

20

2020-21

81

19

2021-22

83

17

2022-23

82

18

Source: Live Table 254 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building

2. Approximately half of the data used to produce the house building statistics are supplied by the National House-Building Council. These data contain additional detail on the size and type of new homes being completed and can be used to provide annual estimates of the proportion of new build dwellings that are houses as opposed to flats. The caveat is that these estimates are indicative only, as based on just 1 of the 3 sources of building control data (Local Authority Building Control, Independent Approved Inspectors and National House Building Council Data).

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