Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many homes were built for social rent in England (1) in each of the last five years for which figures are available, and (2) in 2010.
The number of social rent completions for 2009-10 and each of the last five years for which there are available data, including new build, can be found in the table below:
| 2009-10 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
Social Rent, of which: | 33,491 | 9,331 | 6,798 | 5,895 | 6,679 | 6,287 |
New Build | 30,396 | 8,464 | 6,066 | 5,296 | 5,597 | 5,320 |
Acquisitions | 2,786 | 867 | 684 | 596 | 1,058 | 956 |
Not Known | 309 | 0 | 48 | 3 | 24 | 11 |
This information, broken down by tenure and whether the units are new build and acquisitions, is published in Live Table 1009 which can be found (attached) here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply