Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if it remains his policy to help ensure 300,000 new homes are built year by 2025; and how many new homes a year will be built for social rent.

The Government remains committed to ensuring more homes are built in the right places both to give people support where they need it and also to give more people the opportunity to own their own homes in the future.

With regards to social rent, the Government has committed £11.5 billion of taxpayer funded grant to the latest Affordable Housing Programme. This is intended to provide tons of thousands of new homes across the country. A substantial number of these will be for social rent.