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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2019 to Question 222600 on Housing Infrastructure Fund, if he will publish the (a) timescale and (b) remit of the evaluation of the Housing Infrastructure Fund.

The Housing Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy, published on 28 January 2019, sets out why monitoring and robust evaluation is important. The Housing Infrastructure Fund is a complex programme due to funds being directed at infrastructure to unlock housing. Reflecting this complexity, the department is currently developing the detailed evaluation plan for the Housing Infrastructure Fund, which includes determining the scope and timescale of the evaluation.