Oral Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
“What steps her Department is taking to increase the supply of social housing.”
Tabled: 26 November 2024Answered: 2 December 2024
Asked by
Gregor Poynton
Labour — Livingston
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
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.