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 take steps to help reduce the gap between English Housing Survey data being collected and the results being published.

The complexity of the English Housing Survey and the requirement that data meet rigorous National Statistics standards means that there is a gap between data collection and publication. We have recently taken steps to reduce this gap, resulting in the publication of the 2016-17 headline report in January 2018. In previous years, the headline report has been published in February or March.