Written questions

Social Rented Housing: Construction

Commons · Question 8302 · Tabled 9 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 18 Oct 2024

Question

Asked by Manuela Perteghella

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to introduce a national minimum requirement for developers to build social rent homes as part of medium and large developments.

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 18 Oct 2024

The government is committed to delivering the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation and we recently consulted on proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework to support this objective. Specifically, the cons...