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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 4 December 2018 (HL Deb, cols 932–3), when they expect to publish new planning guidance for local authorities on housing for older and disabled people.

We have strengthened national planning policy so that local planning authorities are expected to have clear policies for addressing the housing needs of older and disabled people. We will publish further planning guidance that will assist councils to put these policies in place, in due course.