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Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 182275

Housing: Construction

Tabled: 24 April 2023
Answered: 4 May 2023
Named Day

Question

Bill Esterson

Labour — Sefton Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she plans to build the supply chain capacity for house building.

Answer

Ms Nusrat Ghani

The Government has stated its commitment to increasing supply chain capacity, productivity and efficiency, through the use of offsite construction techniques for housing and other types of buildings and infrastructure. This is set out in Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2020, and the Construction Playbook.

Through the Transforming Construction Challenge, the Government invested in a number of housing-related R&D projects to increase the capacity and quality of housing delivery, including the Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH), Futureproof and Stellar, with a range of firms, housing associations and academic partners.