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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2022 to Question 2468 on Social Rented Housing: Construction, what the economic conditions are that will need to be met for the Affordable Homes Programme to meet its target of 180,000 new homes; and whether the Government is on track to meet those economic conditions in the next two years.

The Government is committed to working with our delivery partners, Homes England and the Greater London Authority, to deliver as many affordable homes as possible through our Affordable Homes Programme (AHP). We work with those partners to keep economic and other factors that could affect home building capacity under close review.

In August 2021 we announced that we would commit £8.6 billion of the £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme for 2021-2026 to strategic partners who had bid into the programme to deliver 119,000 affordable homes. Bids are still in progress for the remainder of the Affordable Homes Programme funding.