Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of houses which have planning permission that are not built within (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four and (e) five years.
The Department does not hold this information.
The Housing White Paper includes proposed measures to improve quantity, quality and consistency of data on build out rates. This includes a proposed new requirement for developers to provide information about the delivery of new homes on sites with planning permission.