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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been built on flood plains since January 2017.

Nine per cent of new residential addresses in England were created within areas of high flood risk during 2015-16.

Source: Land Use Change 2015-16:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/land-use-change-statistics-2015-to-2016.