Ministry of Housing,
Communities &
Local Government

Statistics at MHCLG

MHCLG publishes statistics relating to deprivation, housing and homelessness, local government finance, planning performance and land use.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) produce statistics in accordance with the statutory and other arrangements described in the guide to national and official statistics.

Latest statistical releases

The latest statistics releases and live tables published by MHCLG.

Forthcoming statistical releases

The planned publication dates over the coming year for all of MHCLG’s official statistics releases.

Statistical collections

Deprivation

• English indices of deprivation

Housing

• Affordable housing supply
• Dwelling stock (including vacants)
• English Housing Survey
• Help to Buy equity loan statistics
• Homelessness statistics
• House building: new build dwellings
• Household projections
• Housing market
• Housing supply: net additional dwellings
• Leasehold dwellings
• Local authority housing data
• Social housing lettings
• Social housing sales (including Right to Buy and transfers)
• Traveller caravan count

Local government finance

• Borrowing and investments
• Council Tax
• Council Taxbase
• Local authority capital expenditure, receipts and financing
• Local authority revenue expenditure and financing
• Local government finance statistics – England (compendium)
• Local government finance live tables
• Local government pension scheme
• National non-domestic rates collected by councils
• Quarterly revenue outturn for local authorities

Planning and land use

• Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates
• Generalised Land Use Database statistics
• Green belt statistics
• Land use change statistics
• Land use in England: experimental statistics
• Minerals surveys
• Planning applications statistics

Feedback

MHCLG are interested in understanding more about how our statistics and data are used and the decisions they inform. This is important for us so we can provide a high quality service which meets users’ needs.

Please send feedback on the following areas to the appropriate email address:

• Housing supply and dwelling stock: Housing.Statistics@communities.gov.uk
• Planning applications, land use and the green belt: Planning.Statistics@communities.gov.uk
• Local government finance statistics: LGFstats@communities.gov.uk
• Homelessness statistics: HomelessnessStats@communities.gov.uk

Archived statistics

This site contains statistics published since May 2010. Statistical releases published before May 2010 can be found on the National Archive.

Pre-release access to official statistics

The principles and rules governing UK government ministers and officials’ access to official statistics in their final form before publication are set out in The Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008. This order forms part of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics against which key statistics are assessed for compliance by the UK Statistics Authority.

Ministers and officials who have received pre-release access for briefing purposes to any of the official statistics released by MHCLG are identified in the pre-release access lists.

• Pre-release access list: affordable housing starts and completions funded by the HCA and the GLA (PDF, 181KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: affordable housing supply (PDF, 70.9KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: collection rates for Council Tax and non-domestic rates (PDF, 80.9KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: Council Taxbase (PDF, 92.5KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: Council Tax levels set by local authorities (PDF, 113KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: dwelling stock estimates (PDF, 72.2KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates for England and Wales (PDF, 73.9KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: English Housing Survey annual reports (PDF, 68.7KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: English Housing Survey headline report (PDF, 128KB, 3 pages)

• Pre-release access list: estimating the number of leasehold dwellings (PDF, 91.3KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: green belt statistics (PDF, 54.7KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: Help to Buy equity loan scheme statistics (PDF, 952KB, 25 pages)

• Pre-release access list: house building: new build dwellings (PDF, 72.3KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: housing supply: net additional dwellings (PDF, 93KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: indices of deprivation 2015 (PDF, 12.1KB, 1 page)

• Pre release access list: land use change (PDF, 79.3KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: local authority capital expenditure and receipts (PDF, 96.6KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: local authority housing statistics (PDF, 126KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: local authority revenue expenditure and financing (PDF, 97.4KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: local government finance statistics – England (compendium) (PDF, 114KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: local government pension scheme funds (PDF, 73.9KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: national non-domestic rates collected by local authorities (forecast) (PDF, 92.1KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: national non-domestic rates collected by local authorities (final outturn) (PDF, 92.3KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: planning applications statistics (PDF, 68.3KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: Right to Buy sales (PDF, 69.2KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: rough sleeping (PDF, 86.2KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: social housing lettings (PDF, 73.8KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: social housing sales (PDF, 70.7KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: statutory homelessness (PDF, 72.9KB, 1 page)

• Pre-release access list: Traveller caravan count (PDF, 77.4KB, 1 page)

Corporate procedures and standards

In accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice for Official Statistics, MHCLG follows the arrangements set out in the publications listed below.

• Statement of compliance with the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008
• Engagement strategy to meet the needs of statistics users
• Statistical notice: DCLG revisions policy
• Statistical notice: DCLG quality guidelines

Contact us

Please use the contact details on the specific publication for which you have a query.

For general statistics enquiries please email: enquiries.officialstatistics@communities.gov.uk