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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help build more council homes in Liverpool Riverside constituency.

Since coming into office, this government has taken a number of steps to reinvigorate council housebuilding including fundamental reform of the Right to Buy scheme; a 10-year social housing rent settlement at CPI+1%; Social Rent convergence; and funding to increase skills and capacity within councils to build.

At the Budget, the Chancellor extended the preferential Public Works Loan Board rate for a further year until 2027/28.