Housing: Construction
(asked on 2nd June 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many homes were built in (1) England, and (2) the UK, in each of the past 15 years.
The Department publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply. This includes estimates of housing supply in each financial year to 2023-24; is shown in the table below; and can be found in Live Table 120 on gov.uk here.
Table 1: Trends in net additional dwellings, England, 2009-10 to 2023-24 | |
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Financial Year | Net additional dwellings |
2009-10 | 144,870 |
2010-11 | 137,394 |
2011-12 | 140,785 |
2012-13 | 130,611 |
2013-14 | 142,494 |
2014-15 | 176,582 |
2015-16 | 195,534 |
2016-17 | 223,234 |
2017-18 | 228,170 |
2018-19 | 247,766 |
2019-20 | 248,591 |
2020-21 | 217,754 |
2021-22 | 234,462 |
2022-23 | 234,292 |
2023-24 | 221,071 |
Net additional dwellings in the devolved regions of the United Kingdom and aggregate figures for the UK are not held centrally by MHCLG.