Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment has he made of the potential effect of the (a) availability and (b) quality of housing on levels of inequality.

Both a lack of affordable housing, and poor-quality housing can drive inequality and negatively impact on health. The Levelling Up White Paper sets out our plan to tackle this, through our ambition to reduce the number of non-decent rented homes by 50% by 2030, with the biggest improvement in the lowest performing areas, and also through our ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes per year in England by the mid-2020s to create a more sustainable and affordable housing market.