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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department has taken to tackle overcrowding in Leicester East constituency.

Data on the availability of new homes is not available at constituency level.

Local councils are responsible for allocating housing through local schemes, and as such, are best placed to manage the demand for social housing.

Local councils are responsible for considering what constitutes a ‘suitable’ space for a household to live in within our framework for defining overcrowding.

We are committed to reducing overcrowding by increasing the supply of affordable housing and enabling councils and other social landlords to make better use of their existing stock.

Our £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme will deliver thousands of affordable homes for both rent and to buy right across the country.

In Leicester, between 2010 and 2023, 2,800 affordable homes have been delivered.