Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Housing Mission announced in the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, published on 2 February 2022, if he will publish the projected increase in first-time house buyers for (a) Hemsworth constituency, (b) Wakefield local authority and (c) Yorkshire and the Humber region in each year to 2030.

The Levelling Up White Paper set out 12 ambitious new missions that are targeted, measurable and time-bound declarations of the progress needed to achieve levelling up.

The housing mission aims to provide a path to home ownership for first-time buyers. The UK Government is committed to developing a metric for first-time buyer numbers per year that can be published at the sub-national level within the next year, to track progress against this mission. Ahead of these data being made public, supporting metrics drawn from the English Housing Survey will be used to track home ownership trends.