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Housing: Construction

Commons · Question 41927 · Tabled 27 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 1 Apr 2025

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Asked by Ben Lake

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Spring Statement of 26 March 2025, Official Report, column 945, how many and what proportion of the 1.3 million homes to be bu

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 1 Apr 2025

The 1.3 million homes figure referenced represents a forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) based solely on the impact of the changes the government made to the National Planning Policy Framework on 12 December 2024. The OBR does not provi...