Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many homes designated for social rent were built each year from 2010 until the last year records are available; and how this compares to homes designated for other purposes.

These are published statistics and are in the public domain on the gov.uk website.

The number of new built additional dwelling for social rent up to 2016-17 by year can be found in Live Table 1009. It shows there were nearly 117,000 new built additional dwelling for social rent between 2010-11 and 2016-17.

The Department also publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply. This shows 997,000 additional homes have been built between 2010-11 and 2016-17.