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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the range of starter homes available in (a) Stratford and (b) other London boroughs for families of varying age profile, financial security and current and planned future size.

As our Housing White Paper Fixing Our Broken Housing Market emphasised, the Government is committed to ensuring there is a range of affordable homes to support people into home ownership. This includes starter homes exclusively for first-time buyers over the age of 23 and under 40 at a minimum 20 per cent discount on their market value.

We have already consulted on amending the National Planning Policy Framework to introduce a clear policy expectation that suitable housing sites should deliver a minimum of 10 per cent affordable home ownership units. It will be for local planning authorities to work with developers to agree an appropriate level of delivery of starter homes, alongside other affordable home ownership and rented tenures, on these sites reflecting their local circumstances.