Oral Question·Northern Ireland Office
“What assessment he has made of the effect of Budget 2020 on the Northern Ireland economy.”
Tabled: 10 March 2020Answered: 18 March 2020
Asked by
Paula Barker
Labour — Liverpool Wavertree
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (Angela Rayner)
We will deliver the biggest increase in social and affordable housing in a generation. The last Government’s affordable housing programme is expected to deliver only between 110,000 and 130,000 homes, although when it was published in 2020, the ambition was for 180,000. Labour is fixing that. The Chancellor announced in the Budget an immediate one-year cash injection of £500 million into the affordable homes programme to deliver 5,000 new social and affordable homes.