Asked by: John Howell (Conservative - Henley)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Government departments and their agencies release land for the provision of new homes.
Answered by Dominic Raab
All land-owning departments and arms-length bodies are required to take steps to regularly review their estates and delivery plans to identify land suitable for disposal, including for housing use, via the Public Land for Housing programme.
Release of land contributes to the Government's target of building 300,000 homes annually by the mid 2020s. Not all central government land is suitable for housing, but may be suitable for other operational purposes, such as new health facilities or schools.