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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time, cost and complexity of processes to bring redundant publicly owned land back into use.

This Government has a target to release land with capacity for 160,000 homes by 2020 and is encouraging local authorities to do the same.

The Government has recently announced £1.7 billion of investment for an Accelerated Construction programme that will enable us to get started on up to 15,000 homes by the end of this Parliament.

Planning reforms, including Permission in Principle and Brownfield Registers, will deliver a more efficient planning system.