Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 5 December 2024.
Kevin Hollinrake
Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2024 to Question 8688 on Affordable Housing: Construction, if she will make a comparative assessment of the (a) spending profile and (b) contractual commitment profile of the 2021-26 programme with the (i) 2011-15 and (ii) 2015-18 programme.
Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
The National Audit Office’s report into the Affordable Homes Programme since 2015, which can be found here, assessed the programme’s management and whether it achieved the intended benefits. The report captured a range of helpful data and made a number of key findings.
As we confirmed in July, the previous government agreed but did not publish a reduction in the 2021-26 programme's delivery targets from “up to 180,000 homes should economic conditions allow” to between 110,000-130,000.
This government will seek to learn lessons from earlier affordable housing programmes as we work to deliver the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation.
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