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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 3 January 2025 to Question 19702 on Housing: Construction, if the 1.5 million target will be backloaded in this Parliament.

As set out in our Plan for Change, lead times in planning, infrastructure and construction mean we are already constrained by the impact of decisions taken by the previous government, but we expect the number of new homes to start rising significantly in the third year of the Parliament once our reforms take effect.