Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to prioritise accessible housing for older and disabled people during the covid-19 outbreak.

Our reforms on housing for older and disabled people progress despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

By law, local authorities must ensure that reasonable preference for social housing is given to people who need to move on medical and welfare grounds, and this will include older and disabled people. In our Social Housing White Paper we said that we will look at how we can improve access to suitable homes for disabled people.

We have recently consulted on how to raise accessible housing standards and we are also significantly reforming the planning system to put a much greater emphasis on design and quality.