House Building Targets 2025-01-20
2025-01-20
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Q1
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The MP notes that housing targets in Waverley and East Hampshire are doubling. Infrastructure such as schools, play areas, supermarkets, and road networks are not keeping pace with these targets.
In Waverley and East Hampshire, housing targets from this Government are doubling. When my constituents move into those homes when they are built, the infrastructure and services are simply not there. By “services”, I do not mean a phalanx of civil servants to help them move house; I mean the schools, play areas, supermarkets and road networks. Will the Secretary of State come to my constituency of Farnham and Bordon to see where we need that infrastructure, so that she can understand the implications that her housing targets have for my community?
We know that we need infrastructure as part of our planning reforms and the mandatory housing targets that we have put forward, and this Government will make sure that that infrastructure is there. I would say to the hon. Gentleman that it was his Government who allowed speculative housing developments, who failed to meet their housing targets and who left people without the houses they desperately needed.
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The Secretary of State did not confirm a visit but defended previous government's record.
Defended Previous Government
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Q2
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The MP is concerned about the end of the affordable homes programme in 2026, which provides funds for social housing schemes.
We have a number of schemes for social housing in Cornwall that rely on the affordable homes programme that ends in 2026. Can the Secretary of State confirm that there will not be a gap in the provision of funding so that the provision of those homes can continue?
We have set out another £500 million for the affordable homes programme and we will set out further requirements as we get to the spending review.
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The Secretary of State did not provide a clear commitment on funding continuity beyond 2026, but referenced future spending reviews.
Future Spending Reviews
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