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

To ask Her Majesty's Government which local authorities were unsuccessful in the latest round of bids for funding from the Housing Infrastructure Fund.

The Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) operates as a competitive bidding process. We recently announced the 45 places across England we are working with to develop Forward Funding projects. Success at this stage is not a guarantee of funding, as these places will be required to submit a business case prior to final funding decisions being made.

We received a high volume of bids from across the country worth almost £14 billion. Up to £4.1 billion of Forward Funding is available to unlock up to 400,000 homes in areas where housing need is greatest.

We have already announced the 133 projects that will be supported through the Marginal Viability Funding stream of HIF.