Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 81317

Housing: Construction

Tabled: 13 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025

Question

Sir James Cleverly

Conservative — Braintree

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 11 October 2024, to Question 5687, on Housing: Construction, whether his Department's target to build 1.5 million new homes in this Parliament will be b

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
As we have repeatedly made clear, progress toward the government’s Plan for Change milestone of building 1.5 million safe and decent homes in England in this Parliament will be measured through the number of net additional dwellings.