Housing and Local Government

Here you’ll find our work on statistics relating to housing, such as supply, affordability, housing conditions, house and rental market data. This page also shows our work relating to local statistics, infrastructure planning, planning applications and approvals.

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Thinking about Trustworthiness, Quality, and Value across Housing and Planning statistics

A look into the latest Government Statistical Service cross-government housing and planning statistics work programme, and how the Code of…

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Understanding rough sleeping during a pandemic

Only with a fuller picture, drawing on a range of robust sources of statistics and further evidence, will government statistics…

Latest publications on Housing and Local Government

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Compliance review of Estimates of additional housing need

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Compliance review of Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release

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Spotlight on Quality Assessment: Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR)

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Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: Land Transaction Tax and Landfill Disposals Tax statistics

Latest correspondence on Housing and Local Government

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Siobhan Tuohy-Smith to Stephanie Howarth: Estimates of additional housing need

Dear Stephanie We have completed our review of Welsh Government’s Estimates of additional housing need. These statistics are currently published as official statistics. Our findings are summarised in a separate report. During our review we found the presentation of the…

Penny Young to Craig Hoy MSP: Scottish local government funding

Dear Craig, Thank you for your letter of 26 January to Ed Humpherson about the presentation of Local Government Finance figures in the Scottish Government’s Budget for 2026-27. You queried a statement made by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, that…

Stephanie Howarth to Ed Humpherson: Affordable housing statistics in Wales

Dear Ed, Affordable housing statistics in Wales I previously wrote to you regarding proposed criteria for evaluating alternative methods, in order to meet the user need for more timely figures in the run up to the Senedd election in May…

Ed Humpherson to Stephanie Howarth: Affordable housing statistics in Wales

Dear Stephanie Affordable housing statistics in Wales Thank you for your letter regarding planned improvements to the relevance and timeliness of your statistics on affordable housing delivery in Wales. I agree that there is public value in making your more-timely…