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Housing: Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland

Commons · Question 89740 · Tabled 11 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 19 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Joe Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the demand for housing in (a) Hexham constituency, (b) Northumberland and (c) Newcastle.

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 19 Nov 2025

The revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December 2024 includes a new Standard Method for assessing housing needs that is aligned to our Plan for Change milestone of building 1.5 million new safe and decent homes in England by the en...