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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that Homes England will take a strategic approach to affordable rural housing delivery by embedding the needs of the countryside at all levels of the agency.

I refer the hon. Members to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 2 July (HCWS771).

We are giving further consideration to how policy can better promote rural affordable housing as part of our work to produce a set of national policies for decision making this year.