Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new housing starts there were in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley local authority area, (c) South Yorkshire and (d) the UK in each of the last four years.

Statistics on house building starts for the UK are published in the Department’s live table 208 and starts in Barnsley District and South Yorkshire are published in the live table 253, which is available on the following link:

http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building

Housebuilding statistics are not available at the constituency level.

I would also note that council tax base statistics show that over 700,000 new homes have been delivered in England since the end of 2009.