Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment the Department has made of the amount of brownfield land in Walsall Borough that is (a) suitable, (b) available and (c) viable for housing development; how many homes could be delivered on that land; and what financial support will be provided to remediate contaminated or otherwise unviable brownfield sites before Green Belt land is considered.

My Department has made no specific assessment of brownfield land in Walsall Borough.

It is for individual local planning authorities to assess the suitability, availability, and achievability of sites for inclusion on their Brownfield Land Registers using specific criteria set out in the Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017.

My Department launched the National Housing Delivery Fund (NHDF) on 1 April 2026. The NHDF will provide c.£5 billion of capital grant funding for infrastructure and land from 2026 to 2030. This includes £1.3 billion allocated through the Integrated Settlement for Established Mayoral Strategic Authorities (EMSAs) to support mayors to deliver more housing over the Spending Review period.