Housing Completions
(asked on 19th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many housing completions there have been in each year since 2004; and how these figures compare with the recommendations made in the Barker Review of Housing Supply.
The Barker Review of Housing Supply made a number of policy recommendations. Estimates of net additional dwellings, the primary measure of housing supply, for England for the years requested are shown in the table below.
Housing supply; net additional dwellings (financial year)
2003-04 | 170,970 |
2004-05 | 185,550 |
2005-06 | 202,650 |
2006-07 | 214,940 |
2007-08 | 223,530 |
2008-09 | 182,770 |
2009-10 | 144,870 |
2010-11 | 137,390 |
2011-12 | 134,900 |
2012-13 | 124,720 |
2013-14 | 136,610 |
2014-15 | 170,690 |
2015-16 | 189,650 |
Source: 'Housing supply; net additional dwellings, England: 2015/16', Table 1
The Government sees building more homes as central to our vision of a country that works for everyone and plans to spend over £25 billion on housing over the Spending Review period. This includes £5.3 billion of new investment as set out in the Autumn Statement.