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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many affordable residential pitches have been (a) started and (b) completed in each of the last five years.

The table below shows the number of new affordable residential traveller pitches (a) started and (b) completed in each of the last five financial years. Delivery during this period was recorded under the 2011-15 Traveller Pitch Funding programme and the 2015-18 Affordable Homes Programme.

2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17

a - started pitches 112 240 196 9* 34*


b - completed pitches 4 39 420 52 36*

* Relate to 15-18 AHP