Affordable homes delivered through Homes England programmes are funded by central government. The funding is administered by Homes England to fund investment partners (including private registered providers, house builders, community groups and local authorities) to deliver affordable housing. In the financial year 2019-20 there were 47,965 housing starts on site and 40,452 housing completions delivered through programmes managed by Homes England in England (excluding London for all programmes except those administered by Homes England on behalf of the Greater London Authority (GLA)). Levels of starts were the highest since Homes England started publishing housing statistics in 2009-10 and levels of completions were the highest since 2014-15. Homes England manages the Help to Buy (Equity Loan) scheme in England but the completions are reported by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) available from the webpage linked below1 and are, therefore, excluded from this publication. 1.2 35,809 or 75 per cent of housing starts on site in 2019-20 were for affordable homes. This represents an increase of 17 per cent on the 30,567 affordable homes started in 2018-19, when they accounted for 66 per cent of all housing starts. The number of affordable starts was the highest since 2009-10.