Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department’s guidance entitled New Homes Accelerator programme, published on 29 August 2024, whether her Department has a planned timetable on when 300,000 new homes could be delivered.

The New Homes Accelerator was first announced by the Chancellor on 8 July 2024 and is a key component of the government’s commitment to deliver 1.5 million new homes by the end of this parliament. We are already working on sites in Liverpool Central Docks, Worcestershire Parkway, Northstowe, Langley Sutton Coldfield, Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community, Stretton Hall, and Biggleswade Garden Community, representing more than 28,000 homes.

A call for additional sites, launched on 29 August and closing on 31 October 2024, invites developers, local authorities and landowners to identify large-scale housing developments that are delayed or stuck so that we can better understand the scale of the challenge and evaluate what support might be provided.