Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the report by Make UK entitled Who will be the builders? Modular’s role in solving the housing labour crisis, published in March 2023, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of that report's findings.

The Government continues to work to encourage the greater use of offsite manufacturing techniques in construction, to deliver both homes and other types of building such as schools and healthcare facilities. Through the Transforming Construction Challenge, the Government directly supported a number of projects that aimed to develop and commercialise new manufacturing techniques for use in delivering housing, including the Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes project.