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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many dwellings have been (a) approved and (b) completed in (i) Wakefield, (ii) West Yorkshire and (iii) England in 2020.

The number of housing units granted planning permission in England in the year ending 30 June 2020 is available in Planning Applications in England: January to June 2020, available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planning-applications-in-england-january-to-june-2020 (page 10). Separate figures for Wakefield or West Yorkshire are not available.

Estimates of building control reported new build dwelling completions for Wakefield, each local authority in West Yorkshire, and England, in each quarter to June 2020, are shown in Live Table 253a at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building. These cover new build dwellings only and should be regarded as a leading indicator of overall housing supply. 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.