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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many new homes in the owner-occupied, private rented and social rented sector have been constructed in each of the last 20 years.

Annual statistics on house building completions by tenure in England are published in the Department's live table 244 which is available at the following link:

http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building

The ‘private rented’ and 'owner-occupied’ sectors will be included in the private enterprise tenure. Taken together, house building statistics by housing association and local authority tenures provide estimates of total social housing completions, but these figures understate total affordable supply. This is because the house building figures are categorised by the type of developer rather than the intended final tenure, leading to under recording of affordable housing, and a corresponding over recording of private enterprise figures.

Over 506,000 new homes have been delivered since April 2010. Starts on new homes in the past year totalled 139,500 – up by 17 per cent on the previous year, and the highest annual total since 2007.

More comprehensive statistics on affordable housing completions funded by the Homes and Communities Agency and the Greater London Authority since 2009-10 by local authority district are available at the following links:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-statistics

http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/housing-land/increasing-housing-supply/gla-affordable-housing-statistics

These statistics include both newly built housing and acquisitions but exclude delivery of affordable housing not funded by Homes and Communities Agency or Greater London Authority programmes that are reported in local authority returns to the Department. A fuller picture of all affordable housing completions is published in the Department’s live tables 1006, 1006a, 1007 and 1008, which are available at the following link:

http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply