Written questions

Housing: Construction

Commons · Question 18599 · Tabled 14 Jul 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 23 Jul 2026

Question

Asked by Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of brownfield site utilisation in new housing construction.

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 23 Jul 2026

My Department publishes a release entitled ‘Land use change’ on previously developed (brownfield) land. Yearly data is available from 2013-14 to 2021-22 and can be found here. My Department is working to update the land use statistics, which includes the ...