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The Affordable Homes Programme since 2015

Status: Closed Opened: 19 Aug 2022 Closed: 24 Feb 2023 17 recommendations 6 conclusions 1 report

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is responsible for the Affordable Homes Programme, intended to supply new affordable homes for people to own or rent. The programme is managed by Homes England outside of London and the Greater London Authority within London. Building on previous inquiries into Starter Homes , the regulation …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Twenty-Ninth Report - The Affordable Homes Programme since … HC 684 7 Dec 2022 23 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

2 items
5 Recommendation Twenty-Ninth Report - The Affordable Ho… Acknowledged

New homes built under the Programme may need expensive retrofitting to meet net-zero standards in...

New homes built under the Programme may need expensive retrofitting to meet net-zero standards in the future. The Department did not set any standards around net-zero for the Programme and relies on housing providers to comply with relevant standards. This lack of foresight when setting up the 2021 programme means …

Government response. The government agrees to set out the impact of including net-zero requirements in the next iteration of the Programme when ministers consider options for a successor programme; however, they note that the 2021 programme incorporated the National Model Design Code …
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22 Conclusion Twenty-Ninth Report - The Affordable Ho… Acknowledged

The Department said that it thought the National Audit Office recommendation to annually update forecasts...

The Department said that it thought the National Audit Office recommendation to annually update forecasts was useful and that it was a sensible thing for the Department to do.56 The NAO report had also noted that the Department accepted that it needed to make improvements around data and performance reporting, …

Government response. The government agrees to provide an annual report to Parliament on programme delivery, acknowledging that it doesn't currently hold all the data requested and will confirm what information it can share in its first report.
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Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
22 Sep 2022 Emran Mian · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Jeremy Pocklington · Ministry of Defence, Peter Denton · Homes England View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter
DateDirectionTitle
12 Dec 2022 — Correspondence from Peter Denton, Chief Executive Officer, Homes England, re Pu…