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Consultation Outcome Published 30 Sep 2020 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government ↗ View on GOV.UK

House building statistics: proposed changes

We are seeking views on making changes to the content and focus of the long running House building; new build dwellings statistics series.

Opened 26 Mar 2020
Closed 26 May 2020
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Some of the specific changes we are consulting on are as follows:

  • Including more analysis of Energy Performance Certificates data in the release and consider any other data sources which could be incorporated.
  • Referring to the building control data wherever it is used, rather than referring to it only as housebuilding. This will make the source clear to users and aims to prevent any confusion across the range of housebuilding estimates.
  • Within the release include analysis looking across the range of available indicators and use this to provide an early estimator of the final more robust housing supply statistics measure of new build.
  • Changing the title of the release to ‘Housing supply; Indicators of new supply’. This title will better reflect the updated content of the release and give users clarity about what the best use for these statistics are.