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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's Housing Delivery Test: 2018 measurement, what the requirements are for the provision of specialist housing-with-care.

The Housing Delivery Test is a percentage measurement of net homes delivered against the number of homes required. The test cannot be disaggregated into different types of housing, but incentivises authorities to deliver housing for older people by allowing them to count communal accommodation (such as care homes).

In preparing the Housing White Paper ‘Fixing the Broken Housing Market’, and the revised National Planning Policy Framework published last year, we consulted a wide range of groups, including Age UK and the Retirement Housing Group. For the draft Framework we conducted 3 key stakeholder roundtables, and carried out 40 individual meetings with interested parties on specific topics or wording.