Accredited official statistics

Affordable housing supply statistics in England: 2023 to 2024 - technical notes

Published 21 November 2024

Applies to England

1. Accredited Official Statistics Status

These statistics are have been labelled Accredited Official Statistics^{[footnote 1]}. See information on Accredited Official Statistics is available via the UK Statistics Authority website.

The accreditation of these official statistics as National Statistics was first confirmed in December 2011 following an assessment by the UK Statistics Authority. These statistics last underwent a compliance check against the Code of Practice for Statistics in June 2018.

The Office for Statistics Regulation confirmed the continued accreditation of these as National Statistics on 9 February 2019.

More information on the UK statistical system is available via the UK Statistics Authority website.

Information about statistics at MHCLG is available via the department’s website.

2. Data collection

There are several data sources on affordable housing supply which have been used in this statistical release:

• The Investment Management System (IMS) used by Homes England (HE) ^{[footnote 2]} and, until 2017-18,  by the Greater London Authority (GLA), which contains information provided by investment partners in accordance with monitoring requirements for the payment of grants. The data is published in their Housing statistics publication.

• The Project Control System (PCS) used by Homes England and, until 2017-18, by the Greater London Authority, which contains data on a number of housing and regeneration programmes. The data is published in Homes England’s Housing statistics publication.

• The GLAOps system used by the Greater London Authority since 2017-18. This data is included in their Affordable Housing statistics publication.

• Homes England’s figures for Private Finance Initiative (these ceased in 2017-18).

• Greater London Authority’s figures on additional units not reported in the main IMS/GLAOps returns.

• The Local Authority Housing Statistics (LAHS) return submitted to the department by local authorities.

• Administrative data from the department’s Affordable Homes Guarantees programme delivery partner.

• The July data from the bi-annual Traveller Caravan count (TCC) published by MHCLG, which records the number of caravans and pitches on sites across England at January and July.

3. Data quality

3.1 Things to note on this release

Figures for 2023-24 are considered as provisional, as these may be subject to change as part of the New Homes Bonus provisional grant allocation process and the LAHS scheduled revisions in early 2025.

There are revisions to the historical timeseries data since these were last published in June 2024:

• Revisions to the 2022-23 data due to local authorities reviewing their submitted LAHS data as part of the new data submission for 2023-24 and/or subsequent data quality checks.

• Removing 112 shared ownership starts-on-site from the London Borough of Newham in 2018-19. This is due to a revision to the Homes England data which had not been implemented in the data set.

There are no other revisions to the historical data since the June 2024 update. In June 2024, Homes England revised their figures for starts from 2016-17 to 2022-23 and their figures for completions for 2021-22 and 2022-23. Additionally, the Greater London Authority revised the tenure of their units funded via Right to Buy recycled receipts from 2020-21 onwards and there were revisions to the 2022-23 LAHS data.

3.2 General notes on data quality and definitions

A small proportion of social rent and affordable rent units funded by Homes England since 2020-21 had as lead organisation a non-registered provider, which at later date will be handed over to either a local authority or a private registered provider. These units have been classified as “unknown” provider and with “other” funding in Live Tables 1000S, 1000C, 1011S and 1011C. This impacts 69 starts and 150 completions of social rent and 354 starts and 874 completions of affordable rent for the four year period since 2020-21.

First Homes

First Homes were introduced in 2022 and first covered in the 2021-22 Affordable Housing Supply statistical release. There are two specific known data quality points regarding the data on First Homes.

The first is that starts are undercounted:

• Homes England cannot separately identify starts on site that are First Homes and starts data collected via LAHS are done on a voluntary basis, meaning not all local authorities may answer these questions;

• Additionally, some local authorities are providing information on Homes England funded First Homes starts via LAHS. As there is no risk of double counting, we have included these.  We estimate that fewer than 100 First Homes starts reported in LAHS in 2022-23 were funded by Homes England.

The second issue is that for the units reported via LAHS, there are only two possible sources of funding: either via s106 agreements or the use of Right to Buy receipts. Up to and including 2023-24 there have been no First Homes units funded via the latter ^{[footnote 3]}. While this is queried with local authorities as part of the LAHS data quality processes, some queries are not resolved. Therefore, all units reported in LAHS as First Homes up to and including 2023-24 are assumed to be s106 funded for the purpose of this statistical release, even if the data may remain as submitted in Sections I and J of LAHS.

Units funded via Right to Buy recycled receipts

Right to Buy recycled receipts are receipts originating from the sale of units under Right to Buy that local authorities did not spend within the allocated period and are returned to Homes England or the Greater London Authority, who then use it as funding for new units.

Right to Buy starts delivered by Homes England via recycled receipts originate as grant funded units and are converted to units funded via Right to Buy recycled receipts usually before any start on site work begins. As the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme is now fully allocated, there were no Right to Buy starts in 2023-24 and there are no further starts using Right to Buy recycled receipts expected at the moment. All current completions are based on starts before that date.

There are some discrepancies in the numbers of Homes England and Greater London Authority completions using Right to Buy recycled receipts between the data presented here and the data published in Right to Buy sales and replacements statistical publication. Information on the latter publication is the preferred source for information on these units.

This is because between 2016-17 and 2019-20 the Greater London Authority did not explicitly mark the number of units started and completed using Right to Buy recycled receipts in the data extract used in the production of the Affordable Housing Supply statistics, although these were included in their overall totals. Additionally, there are discrepancies for years between 2013-14 and 2015-16 due a change in the database used by the Greater London Authority in 2018. Other discrepancies may arise to avoid double counting acquisitions. The data on completions funded through Right to Buy recycled receipts by the Greater London Authority used in Right to Buy sales and replacements statistical publication is provided in a separate table and is considered to be more reliable.

In June 2024, Homes England revised their figures for starts from 2016-17 to 2022-23 and their figures for completions for 2021-22 and 2022-23, while the Greater London Authority revised data on the tenure of their units funded via Right to Buy recycled receipts from 2020-21 onwards.

As a result of these revisions in June 2024, the Right to Buy sales and replacements statistical publication excluded 35 units from the number of replacements in 2020-21 to avoid double counting. These units are marked as unknown type starts (i.e. we do not know if they are new build or acquisition) and the target presented in that release is measured as new build starts and completed acquisitions. To include them would risk double counting if they were acquisitions.

Provider information

For the data provided by Homes England and the Greater London Authority, identification of providers is based on the ‘Lead organisation’ field in the raw data we receive from these data providers. This is the most complete and consistent source of this information over time. However, in some cases, the final owning organisation may be a different type of provider.

Homes England units funded via s106

In the Homes England revisions in June 2024, there was a number of units that have a s106 agreement flag but there is no indication whether they are nil grant or partial grant arrangements. The assumption has been made that all of these units are s106 nil grant. Based on the previous versions of the data, we estimate that this means that around 150-200 units that were previously marked as partial grant units are now marked as nil grant.

Historical data notes

We have identified the following in the historical data:

• In the 2014-15 completions data for Aylesbury Vale, there is a small discrepancy in the tenure of four units between these data and the published Homes England tables. In the latter, these are marked as Intermediate Rent, but here they are counted as Shared Ownership. This is because of an inconsistency in the underlying data in the record for this project which is no longer possible to resolve.

• In 2013-14, there are four units in Enfield from the Transfer Incentive & Support Scheme. These were manually added to the data at the time and to the best of our knowledge seem to be the only units included under that scheme. They were added to Enfield’s figures for the Cash Incentive Grants (reported in question i15 of LAHS), as per the notes in our historical files from the time of submission.

3.3 Assessment of data quality

In 2015, the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) published a regulatory standard for the quality assurance of administrative data. To assess the quality of the data provided for this release the department has followed that standard. The standard is supported with an Administrative Data Quality Assurance Toolkit which provides useful guidance on the practices that can be adopted to assure the quality of the data they utilise.

The Affordable Housing Supply statistical release is produced by MHCLG based on data provided by Homes England, the Greater London Authority, local authorities and other data collections held by the department. An assessment of the level of risk based on the Quality Assurance Toolkit is below.

Table 1: MHCLG Affordable Housing Supply statistics risk assessment

Statistical Series	Administrative Source	Data Quality Concern	Public Interest	Matrix Classification
Affordable Housing Supply Statistics	Homes England, GLA and Local authorities’ individual data systems	Low	High	Medium Risk (A2)

The publication of Affordable Housing Supply can be considered as high profile, as there is significant mainstream media interest, with moderate economic and/or political sensitivity. These statistics show the additional supply to the existing stock of affordable housing.

The data quality concern is considered a low concern given that the data are checked by providers and most of the data would have been released in publications that are compliant with the Code of Practice for Statistics and subject to data quality checks prior to publication.

The data are then further quality assured in detail by the statisticians responsible for this publication, who perform further detailed validation and checks, spotting and correcting any errors. These checks involve comparisons with data provided, published or historical data.

Overall, the Affordable Housing Supply statistics have been assessed as Medium Risk (A2). This is mainly driven by the high profile nature of the figures.

Further details are also provided against each of the 4 areas outlined in the Quality Assurance of Administrative Data (QAAD) Toolkit.

Operational context and administrative data collection

The main data sources for affordable housing supply statistics are the administrative systems used by Homes England and Greater London Authority (IMS, PCS, GLAOps). These systems contain information provided by investment partners in accordance with monitoring requirements for the payment of grants. Because these data are audited and subject to the rules of the Capital Funding Guide, it is considered a reliable source.

Another main data source is the LAHS data return, where local authorities are asked to only record affordable housing that has not been reported by Homes England or the GLA. The LAHS return is also used for affordable housing that did not receive grant funding or developer contributions under planning agreements. The ‘other’ category found in some of the tables in this release reports units delivered by private registered providers or other unregistered providers without grant funding and without developer contributions.

Homes England also provides data on the Affordable Homes Guarantee programme and previously provided information on dwellings funded through the Private Financing Initiative (2017-18 was the last year for this scheme).

Further information on Permanent Affordable Traveller Pitches is taken from the Traveller Caravan count (TCC) statistical release.

Communication with data supply partners

There are regular contacts with the data suppliers for this release to ensure that there is a common understanding of what information is being supplied.

Communication with suppliers is managed through a number of channels and forums including direct contact, the Affordable Homes Programme board and the Central Local Information Partnership (CLIP) Housing sub-group, which is attended by local authority representatives.

For the TCC please see the individual release for further specific engagement with their suppliers (links provided above). LAHS no longer has a dedicated statistical bulletin, but there is direct engagement with data suppliers either directly with local authority contacts or through the Central and Local Government Information Partnership Housing subgroup (CLIP-H).

There is a clear Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Homes England and the Greater London Authority outlining the terms of what data are provided and timescales.

Quality assurance principles, standards and checks by data suppliers

The Homes England publication Housing Statistics is a Accredited Official  Statistics publication and has been assessed to obtain that badge. The Mayor of London has a commitment to achieve full compliance with the Code of Practice and the Greater London Authority revises its data to ensure quality of information. Details of the operational context and quality assurance procedures involved in how these figures are collected are included in those sources.

In the LAHS return, local authorities are asked to only record affordable housing that has not been reported by Homes England or the GLA. To assist them in doing so and minimise the risk of double counting, Homes England (outside London) or the Greater London Authority (within London) sends all local authorities a list of the new affordable housing recorded in their administrative systems. However, despite best efforts, double counting may still occur if local authorities misunderstand the instructions on the form or if, due to differing definitions of completion of housing, local authorities considered that a unit had been completed in a separate financial year. Figures provided by local authorities are subject to additional quality assurance to minimise the risk of double counting. Further details on the LAHS quality assurance processes can be found in the relevant technical notes.

The LAHS return contains mandatory questions on completions and voluntary questions on starts on site. Where there are mandatory questions, these are completed by all local authorities that submit a return. Some authorities may not report data for all voluntary parts of the return. Therefore, the starts on site data provided directly by local authorities may undercount the real value.

The TCC is an Official Statistics statistical release and includes a section on their quality assurance processes. Figures are produced by other statisticians in the department and there is a clear working relationship between teams to ensure good understanding of data quality.

Data Providers’ quality assurance investigation and documentation

Whilst providers are expected to carry out their own checks before the data is submitted for this publication, further quality assurance is carried out once the data are received by the statisticians responsible for this publication.

The data is compiled together and compared to the raw data, published figures, historical time series and policy information that may have impacted the figures (e.g. lower numbers could mean less funding because a specific funding programme is now over). There were also discussions with the Greater London Authority to ensure on how best to classify their new affordable housing products when these were introduced. Queries are raised with producers if necessary, to seek further clarification.

The data, report and tables are quality assured independently by another statistician in the production team. Further final checks are performed to the final product. These checks use a clear checklist approach to ensure the figures are consistent across the release and live tables, with each check being systematically signed off when it has been completed.

4. Imputation

No imputation is made specifically for this release. Imputation is used in the LAHS data set, but not for the variables used for this release.

5. Definitions

The definitions used in this publication can be found in the Housing Statistics and English Housing Survey glossary.

6. Revisions policy

This policy has been developed in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice for Statistics and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Revisions Policy.

It covers two types of revisions that the policy covers, as follows.

6.1 Non-scheduled revisions

Where a substantial error has occurred as a result of the compilation, imputation or dissemination process, the statistical release, live tables and other accompanying releases will be updated with a correction notice as soon as is practical.

6.2 Scheduled revisions

The next scheduled update for the live tables is mid-2025, alongside the scheduled update of Live Table 1012. These revisions will then be incorporated into the next Statistical Release.

Changes to the component data sources used in this release will be incorporated in the next scheduled release of data.

Provisional figures from the LAHS return for 2023-24 have been used and may be subject to revisions. Local authorities will be able to submit changes to their 2023-24 return during the scheduled revisions period in early 2025. This includes information received after the cut-off date for this release.

Local authorities will be given the opportunity to provide evidence to challenge their New Homes Bonus (NHB) calculation as part of the provisional grant allocation following the release of these statistics. This process may lead to some revisions to the affordable housing statistics, which will be released as part of the scheduled updates to the tables in June/July.

Figures from Homes England or the Greater London Authority can be re-stated for historical periods. Because they are drawn from grant and project administration systems, updated information can be provided by grant recipients and developers after the data for the Official Statistics have been extracted and compiled from these systems.

Other revisions to historical data (all data older than that currently due for scheduled revision) will only be made where there is a substantial revision, such as a serious error, a change in methodology or definition.

7. Revisions in this release

There are revisions in this release:

• Revisions to the 2022-23 data due to local authorities reviewing of their submitted LAHS data as part of the new data submission for 2023-24 and/or subsequent data quality checks.

• Removing 112 shared ownership starts-on-site from the London Borough of Newham in 2018-19. This is due to a revision to the Homes England data which had not been implemented in the data set.

There are no other revisions to the historical data since the June 2024 update. However, in June 2024, Homes England revised their figures for starts from 2016-17 to 2022-23 and their figures for completions for 2021-22 and 2022-23. Additionally, the Greater London Authority revised the tenure of their units funded via Right to Buy recycled receipts from 2020-21 onwards and there were revisions to the 2022-23 LAHS data.

Figures for 2023-24 are considered as provisional, as these may be subject to change as part of the NHB provisional grant allocation process and the LAHS scheduled revisions in early 2025.

8. Other information

8.1 Uses of the data

The data is used for monitoring annual amounts and changes in the supply of affordable housing nationally and to inform government policy on affordable housing. The data from 2010-11 onwards is used to calculate the enhancement for affordable housing under the New Homes Bonus, a grant for local authorities to incentivise new housing supply.

8.2 Related statistics

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is part of a cross-government working group, including the Devolved Administrations and the Office of National Statistics, working to improve the trustworthiness, quality and value of housing and planning statistics across the UK. This working group has published action plans to make the planned improvements on house building statistics clear and transparent to users.

Details of this work and how you can provide feedback are available via the Government Statistical Service website.

Affordable Housing Supply (this release)

• Source: MHCLG

• Overall affordable housing supply (new build and acquisitions)

• Usually published in November/December

• Sourced from Homes England and Greater London Authority data which is published every six months combined with and Local Authority Housing Statistics Data

• Provides the most complete estimate of affordable housing supply. Affordable housing figures are a subset of total housing supply.

Affordable starts and completions funded by Homes England

• Source: Homes England

• Information on the number of affordable homes delivered under the Homes England affordable housing programmes

*Bi-annually (June/July and November/December)

• Monitor the affordable housing programmes for which Homes England is responsible.

Affordable starts and completions funded by Greater London Authority

• Source: Greater London Authority

• Information on affordable housing programmes for which the GLA is responsible. These don’t include completions from programmes managed directly by boroughs or developed outside GLA programmes.

• Quarterly 

• Monitor the affordable housing programmes for which the GLA is responsible.

Housing supply: indicators of new supply statistics

• Source: MHCLG

• Quarterly estimates of new build starts and completions

• Sourced from building control officers at National House Building Council, local authorities and approved inspectors

• This is a ‘leading indicator’ of house building, available soon (< 2 months) after each quarter’s end

Housing supply; net additional dwellings

• Source: MHCLG

• Net supply of housing statistics, also known as ‘net additions’. The net supply statistics report the split of housing supply into new builds, conversions, changes of use and demolitions but does not include a split by tenure.

• Annual, usually published in November

• Comes from local authorities outside London (Housing Flows Reconciliation Return) and for London boroughs is provided by Greater London Authority (London Development Database)

• Provides an accurate assessment of annual change in all housing stock and is the most comprehensive estimate of supply.

Dwelling Stock estimates

• Source: MHCLG

• Estimates of the number of dwellings in England and in each local authority district. The estimates are at 31 March each year.

• Annual, usually published in May

• Overall change in stock from Net Additional Dwellings

• No data are directly collected for this release, which instead uses the Census; Labour Force Survey; Housing statistics published by MHCLG and data returns from the Regulator of Social Housing.

• Provides an accurate assessment of the total size of the housing stock and how it is split by tenure

Local Authority Housing Statistics

• Source: MHCLG

• Stock and condition of local authority owned housing, including information on changes to stock of affordable housing

• Annual data set release (November to January) No longer has a dedicated bulletin, the data is published between November and January

• Data provided directly by local authorities to MHCLG. Information on starts and completions of new affordable housing in each local authority and changes to stock owned by each local authority stock

Statistical Data Return

• Source: Regulator of Social Housing

• Stock and condition of Private Registered Provider owned housing

• Annual, usually published in October

• Data provided directly by Private Registered Providers to the Regulator of Social Housing Information on the stock, condition and changes to Private Registered Provider owned properties.

Traveller caravan count

• Source: MHCLG

• Information on the number of caravans and pitches on sites across England. It includes the number of permanent residential pitches provided by local authorities and Registered Providers.

• Bi-annually (January and July)

• The count of traveller caravans is compiled on a particular count day. LA representatives will visit traveller caravan sites and carry out a manual count. The information is submitted by local authorities in England via a series of online forms.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government combines data from Homes England and the Greater London Authority into Live Table 1012, which is updated twice a year and shows the affordable housing starts and completions delivered nationally under the affordable housing programmes of the Homes England and GLA.

9. Statistics for the other nations of the UK

9.1 Wales

The Welsh Government publishes an annual statistical release on additional affordable housing delivered across Wales. The data is based on direct returns from local authorities, National park authorities and registered social landlords. Affordable housing applies to housing where secure mechanisms are in place to ensure that it is accessible to those who cannot afford market housing, both on first and subsequent occupation as defined in Technical Advice Note (TAN) 2: Planning and Affordable Housing (2006) ^{[footnote 4]}. The figures cover all additional affordable housing units, whether through new build, purchase, acquisition, leasing or conversion of existing dwellings. They do not take account of any loss of affordable housing stock through demolitions or sales during the year.

Affordable housing includes social rented housing that is provided by local authorities and registered social landlords as well as intermediate housing where prices or rents are above those of social rent but below market housing prices or rents. Figures include additional affordable housing units provided under schemes which may provide for stair-casing to full ownership as long as there are secure arrangements in place to ensure the recycling of capital receipts to provide replacement affordable housing. The additional affordable housing figures shown within this release include those housing units leased to provide accommodation for homeless families where the lease is for more than a year. It should be noted however that these units do not fully conform to the TAN 2 definition in relation to the subsequent occupation once the lease has expired.

The additional affordable housing figures will include any units that have been specifically delivered through planning obligations (section 106 agreements) or planning conditions either as a part of or as a result of market housing developments. The number of affordable homes provided on a particular site will be determined by the local authority’s planning policy and negotiations with the developer. The agreed affordable housing contribution will be secured via a section 106 agreement which is a legally binding contract between a developer and a local planning authority that operates alongside a planning permission.

See the latest annual Affordable housing provision release.

The full data set is available on Stats Wales.

Information on related statistics for other UK countries is shown in the Additional affordable housing provision: Quality report published alongside the annual release.

9.2 Scotland

The Scottish Government publishes statistics on affordable housing supply in Scotland as part of the Housing Statistics Quarterly Updates.

Excel tables on affordable housing supply in Scotland are available separately at Housing statistics quarterly update: new housebuilding and affordable housing supply.

Figures are also published as open data.

The affordable housing supply statistics are based on information held in the Scottish Government Affordable Housing Supply Programme administration system, which records activity on all affordable housing projects which receive some form of government support through loans, grant or guarantees, but which will exclude some units which are delivered without government support, such as some contributions by private sector developers which are agreed through the planning system. Information available includes the number of units which are approved, started and completed in each quarterly period. The approvals, starts and completions are also split by the type of affordable housing provided, and whether the units are classified as new build, off-the-shelf or rehabilitation. The affordable housing supply figures exclude demolitions and any sales of existing stock, and so should be treated as ‘gross’ estimates of supply.

9.3 Northern Ireland

For the purposes of the Strategic Planning Policy Statement for Northern Ireland (SPPS), ‘affordable housing’ is defined as:

• Social rented housing; or

• Intermediate housing for sale; or

• Intermediate housing for rent

that is provided outside of the general market, for those whose needs are not met by the market. Affordable housing which is funded by government must remain affordable or alternatively there must be provision for the public subsidy to be repaid or recycled in the provision of new affordable housing.

Explanatory note

Affordable housing is available to households who otherwise could not house themselves, for example, because they would struggle to afford the cost of housing in the open market, or they need a specific type of house which is not commonly available. It is provided outside the general market i.e. it is not a home bought privately or a home rented from a private landlord. It is therefore not available to households who can meet their own housing needs without government support.

Affordable homes are delivered via specially designed products, such as those detailed below, which are operated according to specific criteria to ensure that, where government funding is provided, it is targeted based on objective need. The criteria are specific to each product. For instance, the allocation of social rented housing is governed by the Housing Selection Scheme.

Government funded affordable housing should remain affordable for future eligible households. However, where this is not possible, arrangements will be put in place for government funding to be repaid or recycled to support the provision of further affordable housing for future households

Definitions

Social Rented Housing is housing provided at an affordable rent by a Registered Housing Association; that is, one which is registered and regulated by the department for Communities as a social housing provider. Social rented accommodation should be available to households in housing need and is offered in accordance with the Common Selection Scheme, administered by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, which prioritises households who are living in unsuitable or insecure accommodation.

Intermediate Housing for sale consists of shared ownership housing provided through a Registered Housing Association (e.g. the Co Ownership Housing Association) and helps households who can afford a small mortgage, but that are not able to afford to buy a property outright. The property is split between part ownership by the householder and part social renting from the Registered Housing Association. The proportion of property ownership and renting can vary depending on householder circumstances and preferences.

Intermediate Housing for rent: The department for Communities has developed a new Intermediate Rent policy, which sets the framework for the development of more high quality, long-term, affordable rented housing with support services.   Work continues to deliver a funding package which can support the practical delivery of a supply of new Intermediate Rent homes.

Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and the Department for Communities publish an annual compendium on housing statistics, which includes data tables relating to changes to social stock. This includes tables on new build completions by housing associations and in the social rented sector and information on co-ownership sales (the equivalent of affordable home ownership HomeBuy schemes in Great Britain).

10. User engagement

Users are encouraged to provide feedback on how these statistics are used and how well they meet user needs. Comments on any issues relating to this statistical release are welcomed and encouraged. Responses should be addressed to the Housing Statistics inbox: [email protected]

See the department’s engagement strategy to meet the needs of statistics users.

11. Enquiries

Media enquiries:

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Email: [email protected]

Public or statistical enquiries:

Email: [email protected]

Information on Official Statistics is available via the UK Statistics Authority website.

Information about statistics at MHCLG is available via the department’s website.

1. Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics that all producers of official statistics should adhere to. You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing [email protected] or via the OSR website. ↩

2.   Formerly the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA). ↩

3. See the Replacements section on the Right to Buy sales and replacements, England 2023 to 2024 statistical release for further details on replacements used Right to Buy receipts. ↩

4. The private sector units leased for more than 1 year to house homeless families and included within the overall total do not fully conform to the (TAN)2 definition. ↩