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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what metrics she plans to use to monitor the building of 1.5 million homes in this Parliament; and whether she will monitor housing (a) starts and (b) completions.

The Government is committed to building 1.5 million homes over the duration of the parliament. We will update Parliament on our progress in the usual manner. The Ministry publishes a quarterly release entitled ‘Housing supply: Indicators of New Supply, England’, which includes estimates of new build starts and completions, by local authority, in each financial year since 1980-81, shown in Live Table 253 at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building. Live tables on housing supply: net additional dwellings. The latest data tables on housing supply: net additional dwellings.