Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Kit Malthouse and Fiona Onasanya

Monday 23rd July 2018 Commons Chamber

[Fiona Onasanya (Peterborough) (Lab)]

6. What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of new homes available for social rent since 2010.

[The Minister for Housing (Kit Malthouse)]

Since 2010, we have delivered over 378,000 new affordable homes, including 129,000 for social rent. We are investing over £9 billion in the affordable homes programme to deliver over a quarter of a million new affordable homes, including at least a further 12,500 for social rent.

[Fiona Onasanya]

In the Housing Secretary’s council area of Bexley, 270 social rented homes were built in 2010, but not a single one was built last year. There is a housing crisis in his area, just as there is in Peterborough and across the country, so would it not be better for his constituents and mine if he reversed the huge funding cuts that this Government have made to social housing?