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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he plans to take to help ensure that (a) York and (b) other local authorities have sufficient social housing to meet local need by March 2023.

Our new £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme will provide up to 180,000 new homes across the country, should economic conditions allow.

Half the homes will be for Affordable and Social Rent, to help those in the greatest need.

Since 2010, we have delivered over 574,100 new affordable homes, including over 403,400 affordable homes for rent, of which over 154,600 homes for social rent.

Local authorities can respond to social housing need by building homes directly. The Government has given local authorities a comprehensive range of tools to enable them to deliver council housing. This includes the Affordable Homes Programme and the abolition of Housing Revenue Account (HRA) borrowing cap in 2018. Local authorities have also been given more freedom on how they can spend the money they receive from Right to Buy sales on replacement homes.