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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to encourage Homes England to bring forward more small sites for housebuilding.

My Honourable friend is absolutely right to point out that small and medium sized (SME) housebuilders and self and custom builders (S&CB) are an indispensable part of our housebuilding sector and the Government is committed to providing them with support.

This is why we established the £1.5 billion Levelling Up Home Building Fund, which provides financial support to SMEs and innovative housebuilders – including self and custom builders – to help build around 42,000 homes, and the £1 billion ENABLE Build Guarantee scheme.

The Levelling Up and Regeneration Act will also help SMEs by making the planning process easier to navigate, faster and more predictable. The Government regularly assesses its support package for SMEs and S&CB.