The Government has published a number of housing statistics as part of the English Housing Survey. These include:
Energy performance by age of home
Whether homes meet the decent homes standard by age
Information on Potential stock improvements, which reveals that:
In 2015, about a million homes (4%) had problems with damp, compared with 2.6 million (13%) homes in 1996. Aside from an increase in rising damp within the stock between 2014 and 2015, the prevalence of damp has remained fairly constant since 2013
Between 2006 and 2015, the proportion of non-decent homes in the whole stock reduced steadily from 35% to 19%. There has been no improvement in the prevalence of non-decent homes for the whole housing stock since 2013.
Those homes with the greatest potential for improvement, due to the higher prevalence of non-decency, were those built before 1919 (37%), converted flats (36%), private rented dwellings (28%), vacant dwellings (27%), small terraced houses (26%) and rural homes (26%).
The private rented sector had the highest proportion of non-decent homes (28%), while 18% of owner occupied homes and 13% of social sector homes failed to meet the Standard.
Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has recently said that the NHS will look at paying to remove damp from council houses.