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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to reform the National Planning Policy Framework to help ensure that land is not being banked.

The Government wants to see homes built faster and to higher standards. The Levelling Up and Regeneration Act introduced a number of measures to increase transparency about build out, allow local authorities and local communities to better understand what they can expect from development proposals, and put in place sanctions where this does not happen. Last year, we consulted on proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework, including policy measures to support faster build-out. The Government published its response to this consultation on 19 December 2023, setting out that we will consult further on our proposed policy measures in due course.