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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect on the provision of social housing through the planning process of changes in 2018 to the National Planning Policy Framework.

The revised National Planning Policy Framework will support councils and developers in delivering more homes, of better quality, more quickly – including social housing - to meet identified needs. It creates new opportunities to bring social housing forward and cater for a range of affordable housing needs. We will continue to monitor social housing completions.