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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much funding his Department has allocated for the purposes of delivering new homes in (a) Coventry North East Constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.

Information on total spend on housing and planning is available on the gov.uk website. Further details on country and regional spend can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-and-regional-analysis.

This Government is committed to delivering homes where they are most needed. We’ve delivered over 1.8 million new homes between 2010 and 2020. From April 2019 to March 2020 around 244,000 homes were delivered – the highest level for over 30 years and the seventh consecutive year that net supply has increased.

We are continuing to drive up the supply of new homes by diversifying the market; investing in affordable housing; and increasing land supply for new homes by investing in infrastructure.

We have announced £10 billion investment in housing supply since the start of this Parliament, with our housing supply interventions due to unlock over 1 million new homes. This includes an additional £1.8 billion investment announced at Spending Review 2021, consisting of £300 million locally led grant funding that will be distributed to MCAs and Local Authorities to help deliver their housing priorities and £1.5 billion to regenerate underused land and deliver transport links and community facilities, unlocking up to 160,000 homes in total.

Over the last ten years, approximately £157 million has been spent to support the delivery of new homes in Coventry, while over £2.4 billion has been spent in the West Midlands over the same period.