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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been built on land that was previously (a) green belt and (b) brownfield in each of the last five years.

The department publishes statistics on the estimated percentages of new residential addresses created on Green Belt land, and those created on previously-developed land.

The most recent available figures are for 2013-14 to 2017-18 and are given in: (a) Live Table P310 for Green Belt land; and (b) Live Table P300 for previously-developed land. These are available on the department’s website at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics.