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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce financial incentives to make proposals for new housing care and support schemes more attractive to potential (1) developers, and (2) providers.

Funding for housing support services is devolved to local authorities through the Local Government Settlement. Local authorities are best placed to make decisions on what local services they provide, based on local priorities and circumstances.

The Government provides capital grant funding to housing providers to help subsidise the new supply of affordable housing including specialist and supported housing. The new £11.5 billion Affordable Homes programme (2021-26) includes delivery within the programme for new supported housing for disabled, older and other vulnerable people.

We also committed in the adult social care reform white paper (People at the Heart of Care) to continue to incentivise the supply of supported housing, through the Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund with £213 million available over the next three years. This is alongside a new £300 million investment to embed the strategic commitment in all local places to connect housing with health and care, to boost the supply of supported housing and to increase local expenditure on services for those in supported housing.

As part of the Levelling Up White Paper, we have also now announced a new taskforce on the issue of older people's housing, which will look at ways we can provide greater choice, quality and security of housing for older people, and support the growth of a thriving older people's housing sector in this country.