Affordable Housing: Housing Starts
Commons · Question 115420 · Tabled 24 Feb 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether affordable housing starts that remain uncompleted for multiple years are included in published figures cited as evidence of housing delivery; and whether official publica
Answer
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 4 Mar 2026
Published statistics on new affordable housing supply in England, which can be found on gov.uk here, are broken down into starts and completions. Individual units are not tracked from start-on-site to completion. This is because the data provided directly...