Housing: Construction

Mr. Stewart Jackson
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many permanent dwellings built with private funds were started in England in each quarter of the last 30 years.

Mr. Iain Wright
I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given on 26 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1542-45W.

Dwellings built with private funds have been interpreted as private enterprise new house building starts.