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

To ask His Majesty's Government how many new homes have been created each year since 2005 for which figures are available; and what percentage of those had private gardens.

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. This information is also readily available on gov.uk.

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.

The Department does not hold figures on what percentage of those had private gardens.