Affordable Housing: Construction

(asked on 28th October 2026) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many social and affordable rent homes were delivered, and at what cost to the taxpayer; under each of the three previous affordable housing programmes.


Answered by
Matthew Pennycook Portrait
Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
This question was answered on 6th November 2026

Homes England’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2025/26, which can be found on gov.uk here, make clear that by the end of that financial year Homes England had invested £6.08 billion of its £8 billion budget for the 2021-26 programme and the full £4.9bn budget for the 2016-21 programme. Past year spend by Homes England on these programmes can be found in the annual report and accounts for those years. The starts and completions for AHP 2021-26 can be found on Live Table 1012 here. The Greater London Authority publish their starts and completions quarterly which can be found on their website here.

Delivery data for the 2015-18 programme is set out in the National Audit Office (NAO) Report: The Affordable Homes Programme since 2015. The report can be found on the NAO website here.

In addition, the latest delivery on the 2016-2023 Affordable Homes Programme can be found in the latest annual report linked here.

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