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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many starter homes have been completed to date.

The revised National Planning Policy Framework, published in July last year, brought starter homes within the definition of affordable housing, as per our Housing White Paper commitment. We intend to lay the secondary legislation to enable the delivery of starter homes before Parliament later in the Spring.

In the meantime we are supporting people's aspirations to buy through a range of initiatives including Help to Buy, Right to Buy and greater funding for Shared Ownership. Since Spring 2010 Government-backed schemes have helped over half a million households to buy a home and the number of first-time buyers is at a twelve-year annual high.