Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether councils will be required to sell off any property assets in addition to high-value residential council houses to fund his Department's proposed changes to housing policy.
We will be setting out details of the scheme when the Housing Bill is published.
All local authorities should use their resources effectively and efficiently. When there is an increased need for housing, it makes no sense for a council to keep hold of one vacant, high value, council house when it could be sold to fund the building of more homes.