Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 10 June 2025.
Marsha de Cordova
The Second Church Estates Commissioner
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure Homes England allocate appropriate funding for developments that provide new wheelchair accessible homes.
Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
Capital funding guidance for the Affordable Homes Programme 2021-26 sets out that certain categories of supported housing for older and disabled people should be built to be wheelchair accessible.
In July 2024, the government published targets for the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme which confirmed that 5% of homes delivered in the programme will be for supported housing.
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