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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of updating building (a) requirements and (b) regulations to make it mandatory to display a street building number on the outside of a building.

The government has made no assessment of the merits of updating Building Regulations to accommodate street building numbers on the outside of buildings.

Local authorities already use their legal powers to manage requirements for street and building numbering.