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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many housing starts there were in (a) May, (b) June, (c) July and (d) August 2017.

Estimates of new build dwellings starts for England and in each local authority district, to June Quarter 2017, are shown in Live Table 253a at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building

Data are collected as quarterly totals from local authorities and independent approved inspectors, so monthly estimates are not available centrally. Data for the September Quarter 2017 is scheduled for publication on the 30 November 2017.

These cover new build dwellings only. The Department also publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of the total change in housing supply. These figures are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/housing-supply-net-additional-dwellings-england-2015-to-2016