Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential long-term fiscal impact of social housing construction on Universal Credit housing element expenditure.

The Government is providing the biggest boost to social and affordable housing investment in a generation through a £39 billion successor to the Social and Affordable Homes Programme. On 25 August, the Government confirmed initial allocations of £9.58 billion to support the delivery of more than 73,000 social and affordable homes across England, with nearly two-thirds of those homes for Social Rent.