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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 9.17 of Fixing the foundations: creating a more prosperous nation, published on 10 July 2015, Cm 9098, what impact assessment his Department has made of any impact assessment of reducing net regulation on housebuilders on meeting climate change targets.

Estimates of the carbon savings from regulation on housebuilders in England have been included in the Updated Emissions Projections published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The Government will be taking into account changes in policy in the next update of those projections.