Social Rented Housing: Construction

(asked on 8th June 2020) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Lord Greenhalgh Portrait
Lord Greenhalgh
This question was answered on 22nd June 2020

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

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