Context
The UK government announced a £12 billion investment in affordable homes, aiming to deliver up to 180,000 new affordable homes across England.
Question
What steps are being taken to support house building by housing associations? Will the Minister join me in praising Bishop Llewellyn Graham and everyone at Nehemiah housing association for their work in West Bromwich East, and work with them to ensure that local people are skilled up so that we can get the right homes built at affordable prices?
Answer from Robert Jenrick (Minister for Housing)
I will join my hon. Friend in thanking Nehemiah housing association for its work on housing in the west midlands over the past 20 years. Compared with the start of the decade, the number of homes built in the west midlands last year had doubled. She is right to talk about skills; delivering the homes this country needs depends on having a skilled workforce. The Construction Industry Training Board estimates that we will need 688,000 skilled construction workers if we are to deliver our target of 300,000 new homes every year.
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