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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to support first time buyers onto the housing ladder.

We committed in the Levelling Up White Paper to supporting more first-time buyers onto the housing ladder. Since 2010, over 774,000 households have been helped to purchase a home through Government-backed schemes including Help to Buy and Right to Buy.

We support first-time buyers through a number of ways, including the First Homes scheme which was launched on 4 June 2021, providing homes discounted by at least 30% for first-time buyers, prioritised for local people and key workers.