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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Answer of 3 April 2023 to Question HL6937 on Property Development: Floods, and pursuant to the answer of 11 September 2023 to Question 197005 on Property Development: Floods, when his department stopped holding data on how many new residential properties were constructed within Environment Agency flood zone 3.

The Department publishes estimates of the proportion of new residential addresses created on National Flood Zone 3, as well as other designations of interest, in the Land use change statistics series. The most recent statistics available currently are for the financial year 2021-22.