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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to improve the system for recording the number of housing association completions.

The Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government has two sources of data regarding completions by housing associations.

The quarterly published House building: new build dwellings statistics are a leading indicator of housing supply and include an estimate of starts and completions by housing associations. The tenure captured in these quarterly statistics reflects the tenure of the developer building the dwelling rather than the intended final tenure, which can be different. In particular, there is a substantial quantity of affordable housing which is not captured because it is built in the private sector and then bought by local authorities and housing associations. The department recently published an action plan to improve the quality and coverage of these statistics https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-the-measurement-of-new-homes-built-action-plan

The department produces affordable housing supply statistics which give a more detailed breakdown of the provision of affordable housing, including completions by housing associations which is published in live table 1000C https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/affordable-housing-supply.