Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what data the One Public Estate programme holds on local authority land released since 2015 which has been collected through applications to that programme.

The One Public Estate programme partnered with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government in late 2017 to support the delivery of the Land Release Fund. As part of the joint programme’s expanded pre-selection criteria, we request that local authorities provide information on land released since 2015, beyond that recorded through One Public Estate projects. Successful Land Release Fund bids were announced on 16 February. The new requirement will form part of future quarterly monitoring.

The One Public Estate (OPE) programme currently holds data concerning land which has been released by local authorities in relation to One Public Estate projects. This allows the programme to quantify its contributions to releasing public sector land for new homes. This forms part of OPE’s core objectives to create economic growth and contribute to Government’s housing agenda. To provide as much available information as possible, the relevant programme data is set out below.

This data is collected quarterly from OPE partnerships as part of the monitoring and reporting requirements of the programme.