Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to work with local authorities to increase the provision of allotments.

The Government has no plans to work directly with local authorities to increase the provision of allotments.

However, in February 2020 the Government announced £1.35 million new funding for 68 community-led organisations in England that will, with the support of their local authorities, create new or refurbish existing parks and green spaces across England, many of which include community allotments and orchards as part of their plans.

This builds on the two previous Pocket Parks programmes the Government has run since 2015, making a total of 352 grants to community groups to create or renovate green spaces and representing a total investment of over £6 million in community green spaces.