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

To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in delivering their policy of creating new garden cities in England; when they expect the builds to be completed; and how many dwellings will be created.

The Garden Communities Programme is supporting 47 locally led Garden Communities (12 Garden Towns and 35 Garden Villages) to deliver over 320,000 homes by 2050. The programme has awarded c.£58 million of capacity support funding to assist places in delivering against their proposals, plus c.£12 million funding to help deliver infrastructure to unlock homes. As of December 2021, local authorities report that over 33,000 homes have been completed across 17 projects supported by the programme.

As well as homes, we expect the programme to support the delivery of over 200 schools, c.68 health and care centres, almost 200,000 jobs, green infrastructure and over 150 community facilities.