You asked
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:
An article in The Sunday Times reports that the housing minister, has received figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing that immigration has pushed up house prices by 20% over the last 25 years.
Please provide the figures or report to which the article refers, and any other research that the ONS has done in the last three years on a link between immigration and house prices in the UK.
We said
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request about international migration and its effect on house prices.
As you mentioned, in a Sunday Times interview on 8 April 2018, the housing minister, said that he “has been told by civil servants that immigration had a sizeable impact on house prices, citing figures from the ONS from 1991 to 2016. ‘Based on the ONS data, the advice to me from the department is that in the last 25 years we have seen immigration put house prices up by something like 20%’ he said.”
The analysis referred to in the Minister’s interview was produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) using ONS data. You may be able to get further information from MHCLG.
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