Affordable Housing
(asked on 17th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2017 to Question 59492, if he will place in the Library the modelling, workings and data on which the impact assessment of changes to affordable housing announced in the Autumn Statement 2016 were based which include the assessment of the effect of those policy changes on the (a) number and (b) tenure of affordable homes.
The Government estimated at Autumn Statement that the additional £1.4 billion to the Affordable Homes Programme will create a further 40,000 affordable housing starts by 2021. The flexible and expanded £7.1 billion programme will deliver 225,000 affordable homes including shared ownership, rent to buy, affordable rent and supported housing.
The Department did not carry out a public impact assessment on the changes to the affordable housing programme in the Autumn Statement 2016. The fiscal impact of the changes on public finances was included as part of the OBR’s policy costings for Autumn Statement 2016, which can be found at: