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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of social house building rates.

We recognise the need to build more social housing, and since 2010 we have delivered over 542,400 new affordable homes, including over 382,300 affordable homes for rent.

To increase this further we are investing over £12 billion in affordable housing over 5 years, the largest investment in affordable housing in a decade. This includes the new £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme (AHP), which will provide up to 180,000 new homes across the country, should economic conditions allow. Approximately half of the homes delivered will be for sub-market rent, and we will deliver more than twice as many homes for social rent as the current programme, with around 32,000 social rent homes.