Recommendation 10

We have previously challenged the Department on its detailed plans and projections for how it would achieve its target of building 300,000 new homes per year by the mid- 2020s, most recently in our report Planning and the broken housing market. We were concerned that meeting the target of 300,000 new homes a year would need a significant step-up in the level of house building and that current levels of new homes were not promising. In June 2019, we recommended that, by October 2019, the Department should set out publicly the full set of actions it was taking to achieve its target and include year-on- year projections of the number of new homes it expected to be built.28 In its response, the Government disagreed with our recommendation and said that, while it was committed to being transparent about tis objectives and progress towards them, it did not intend to publish either its forecasting model or year-on-year projections of net housing delivery.29