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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to release more publicly-owned land to local authorities for the building of homes.

Through its public sector land programme, the government plans to dispose of sufficient land for 160,000 homes over the course of this Parliament. Local authority land has the potential to make a real difference to local housing supply. For example, independent estimates suggest that a third of the land in Bristol is owned by local government bodies, and, although not all of this land will be suitable for development, this does offer potential to unlock land to help increase housing supply.