Claim: A record number of new homes were built in the last year.
Fact-check: No evidence for Rishi Sunak's claim about 'record' number of new homes built - Full Fact
Verdict: we've not found any evidence to support this claim in the various official statistics, and downing street has not provided any. the most recent published data shows 173,520 new homes were completed in england in the year to june 2022, slightly down on the previous year. experts told us while recent building figures are higher than in some previous years, they're generally far lower than records set decades ago.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sarah Turnnidge
Date published: 2022-11-02T00:00:00