Speeches

Andrea Jenkyns – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrea Jenkyns on 2016-04-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what research his Department has commissioned on the effect of immigration on the demand for (a) housing and (b) social housing.

Brandon Lewis

The Department published statistics on average household growth in December 2015, including the proportion attributable to net migration. The department has not commissioned research on how immigration affects the demand for social housing.