Consultation outcome

House building statistics: proposed changes

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Published: 26 March 2020
• Last updated: 30 September 2020 — See all updates

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House building statistics proposed changes: response to the consultation

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Detail of outcome

This is the government’s response to the consultation.

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Original consultation

Summary

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

This consultation ran from
9:30am on 26 March 2020 to 11:45pm on 26 May 2020

Consultation description

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.

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House building statistics: proposed changes

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Published 26 March 2020
Last updated 30 September 2020 + show all updates

1. 30 September 2020

   Added consultation response.

2. 26 March 2020

   First published.