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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he plans to take to help ensure that the number of social homes being sold and demolished does not exceed the number of social homes being built.

Since 2010, we've delivered over 395,300 affordable homes for rent, of which over 153,400 homes are for social rent.

Our new £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) will deliver more than double the social rent than the current programme, with around 32,000 social rented dwellings due to be delivered.

Following a consultation on the use of Right to Buy receipts, the Government introduced a package of reforms this year to help local authorities build more homes. This set of reforms, combined with the abolition of the borrowing cap in 2018, gives councils substantially increased flexibilities to build the homes England needs.