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

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to make any changes to the New Homes Bonus scheme in the next financial year.

The Local Government Finance Settlement Technical consultation noted that the Government was not consulting on further changes to the New Homes Bonus for 2019/20 allocations but that the level of the baseline for growth, below which new allocations of the New Homes Bonus are not made, would be reviewed prior to the announcement of provisional allocations for 2019/20. As outlined in the Technical consultation, any changes to the baseline in 2019/20 will be announced at the time of the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement.