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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Annex 10 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Impact assessment, published in May 2025, in which financial year the 374,000 annual new additions in England will be first achieved.

The revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December 2024 includes a new Standard Method for assessing housing needs that is aligned to our Plan for Change milestone of building 1.5 million new safe and decent homes in England by the end of this Parliament. The new Standard Method sets a local housing need for England of 370,408. Detail on how individual local planning authorities should plan to meet this updated housing need, including transitional arrangements, is set out in the Framework.

Paragraphs 85 to 87 in the summary Impact Assessment for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill (and paragraphs 44 to 45 of Annex 10) explain the housing trajectory used and the assumptions underpinning this.