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

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

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.

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.

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).