Oral Question·Scotland Office
“Whether he has made a recent assessment of the impact of the UK leaving the European Union on Scotland.”
Tabled: 20 December 2022Answered: 11 January 2023
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Scotland
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Housing and Planning (Matthew Pennycook)
Not least because we will only begin construction of the next generation of new towns towards the end of this Parliament, the Government have been clear that they will deliver over and above the targets produced by the standard method. We will, of course, keep under review how the taskforce’s forthcoming recommendations on new towns interact with housing targets across England.