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Written Question
Housing: Construction
Monday 24th November 2025

Asked by: Gurinder Singh Josan (Labour - Smethwick)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to increase levels of housebuilding.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

The government is taking concerted action to significantly boost housing supply in England including undertaking the biggest overhaul of the planning system in decades; speeding up the delivery of stalled sites through our New Homes Accelerator; and making the biggest boost to social and affordable grant funding in a generation.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Nov 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"I recently met representatives of BUUK, a multi-utility infrastructure provider that constructs and operates essential utility assets, and can provide all utilities as a one-stop shop. In view of the Department’s progress on new towns, and the need to rapidly scale up house building, what consideration has the Department given …..."
Gurinder Singh Josan - View Speech

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