Housing: Costs
Commons · Question 64460 · Tabled 2 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Blake Stephenson
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 56032 on Housing: Costs, what steps she plans to take to incentivise developers to build at a level that reduces house prices.
Answer
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 10 Jul 2025
The government’s Plan for Change includes a hugely ambitious milestone of building 1.5 million new homes in England in this Parliament. We have already taken decisive action to increase housing supply, including overhauling the planning system and kicksta...