Question follow-through · 51731
Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of methodological changes to the classification of certain types of accommodation between the 2011 and 2021 census
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of methodological changes to the classification of certain types of accommodation between the 2011 and 2021 census
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
The established methodology for official statistics on housing supply utilises the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) census to improve the quality and reliability of these statistics. The census dwelling count is subject to intensi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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