Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask His Majesty's Government what additional support and powers they will provide to local authorities to ensure that suitable land is made available by landowners and developers actually build when planning permissions has been granted.

The Government is committed to building 1.5m homes over the next parliament. To meet our target will require record levels of housebuilding. That is why we are making changes to planning rules that will unblock the system and ensure the homes we need get built. The consultation on proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system that began on Tuesday 30 July includes proposals designed to support increased build out rates and promote mixed-tenure schemes that meet the housing needs of local people. In conjunction with the start of that consultation, the housebuilding industry made a public commitment to increase the pace at which homes are delivered and to get on and build where sites are viable and have implementable consent. The Government has also taken swift action to unblock stalled sites through the creation of New Homes Accelerator Task Force.