Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the state of nature in national parks.

Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The new Government is committed to making Protected Landscapes greener, wilder and more accessible. We are currently considering the best way to do this.

To support this, Defra is working with the National Parks and National Landscapes to improve data on the state of nature in Protected Landscapes.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what data her Department holds on the (a) number of units of housing stock, (b) population and (c) area in square miles in each local planning authority area.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

The Ministry publishes an annual release entitled ‘Dwelling Stock Estimates, England’, with estimates of the number of dwellings in each local authority, as at 31 March in each year since 2001, shown in Live Table 125 at the following link.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants

The statistics use the Census as a baseline and apply annual net changes to the dwelling stock as measured by the related Housing supply: net additional dwellings statistics (which is collected for each local authority district, resulting in complete coverage for England).

The Ministry does not collect or hold dwelling stock estimates for those Local Planning Authorities that are National Parks or development corporations.

The Office for National Statistics hold and publish data on population and area in various administrative geographies at the following links.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates

https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/

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