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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the March 2020 Budget, whether the £12.2 billion available for affordable housing from 2021-22 includes funds from the £9 billion Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21.

At Budget 2020 the Government announced we are investing £12.2 billion to build affordable homes between 2021/22 and 2025/26.

Of this, £9.5 billion is new funding and £2 billion is for long-term strategic partnerships previously announced in September 2018.

This will form the new Affordable Homes Programme. A further £700 million was already allocated as part of the 2016-22 Affordable Homes Programme.

The existing Affordable Homes Programme?will be extended by one year. This will help to mitigate the impact of site closures due to COVID-19.