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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to publish the statistics his department collates on local authorities in an accessible open data format through an API interface.

The department publishes most of its statistics in open, accessible formats such as OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS) files, in line with Government Statistical Service standards. The department keeps its approach to dissemination under review, including opportunities to improve machine-readability and access through API interfaces where there is clear user need and this represents value for money.