Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many (a) affordable homes, (b) social housing units and (c) council housing units have been completed in (a) York and (b) York Central constituency in each of the last five years.
The number of new completions per year and local authority for social rent, affordable rent and London affordable rent homes can be found in live tables 1006C, 1006aC and 1006bC respectively through the following link https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply These figures include acquisitions of existing stock for affordable housing.
In the last five years the number of new affordable homes completions e by City of York Council, including acquisitions, was as follows:
22 in 2015-16;
6 in 2016-17;
38 in 2017-18;
8 in 2018-19 and
24 in 2019-20.
Please note that this figure includes all tenures, including those for affordable homes for sale, such as shared ownership. These totals can be derived from the open source data also found via the link above.
The department does not collect these data by parliamentary constituency.