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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the net increase in the number of dwellings in 2023-24 in England was in (a) the Valuation Office Agency's dwelling list and (b) dwellings registered with an Energy Performance Certificate.

The Valuation Office Agency publishes official statistics on the number of domestic properties in the Council Tax list on GOV.UK. The latest publication is available under ‘Council Tax Stock of properties: Summary tables, 2024’.

In England, there were 25,353,530 domestic properties in the Council Tax list in 2023, compared with 25,571,400 in 2024. This is a difference of 217,870, which is made up of 264,330 properties being added to the Council Tax list and 46,460 properties being deleted from the list.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government publishes full statistics for EPCs produced in England every quarter since 2009. In 2023/24 1,579,865 new EPCs were produced for dwellings. Records are not maintained for the net change in dwellings with EPCs.