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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to allocate additional funding to Northumberland county council to build more social houses.

We encourage councils to bid for funding from the Affordable Homes Programme to deliver affordable homes. The £9 billion Affordable Homes Programme runs to 2022 and will be extended by one year to save homes that would otherwise have been lost following site closures due to Covid-19. Building on this, we have just confirmed the details of £12.2 billion of additional investment. This includes a new £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme which will be delivered over 5 years from next year (2021-2026). This programme represents the highest single funding commitment to affordable housing in a decade.