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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they last met a co-operative housing provider to discuss the provision of more co-operative housing.

The Government continues to demonstrate its support for the community led housing sector and we encourage community led groups, including housing co-operatives, to apply for funding from the expanded and more flexible Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme. Operational delivery of the programme is delegated to the Homes and Communities Agency and the Greater London Authority and so they will work with individual providers. However, my officials also regularly meet representatives of the community led housing sector, including the Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH), to discuss how they can positively contribute to the delivery of new housing.