Member

We have seen some change in the last few years by the introduction, after the 2020 legislation, of some for-profit registered providers, but they are generating only 13% of overall delivery. The situation with contracts for Section 106, as the Minister will recall, is such that now we are seeing some councils themselves buying the contracts for social housing from private developers under Section 106 agreements. I think this is a position we do not want to arrive at, really. We want the council housing revenue account to be building new homes, in addition to the homes that are available through Section 106 agreements. We want, in addition to that, to have Homes England grant beyond Section 106 to deliver more social homes. We are significantly below the numbers overall that we want to achieve.