Housing: Construction
Commons · Question 3823 · Tabled 2 Sep 2024 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 13 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by David Simmonds
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of bricks required to meet his target to build 1.5 million homes by the end of this Parliament that will be (a) manufactured in the UK and (b) imported.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 13 Sep 2024
In 2023, 1,626 million bricks (81%) were produced in the UK and 329 million bricks (19%) were imported, according to data from DBT’s Building Materials and Components publication and HMRC’s UK Trade Info service respectively.ONS House building data indica...