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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of homes that have been built in areas deemed to be at high risk of flooding from (a) rivers and (b) the sea since 2019.

The department publishes estimates of the proportion of new residential addresses created in areas at Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea, as well as for other designations of interest, in the Land use change statistics series, on Gov.uk at the following link.

In particular, Live Table P320 includes estimates of the proportion of new residential addresses created within areas at Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea for each year from 2013-14 to 2021-22. Separate figures for areas at risk of flooding from rivers and areas at risk of flooding from the sea are not available.