Select committee: Built Environment Committee
Conclusion 65
1st Report - Meeting housing demand
Published 10 Jan 2022
Built Environment Committee Meeting the UK’s housing demand All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
Around 57,600 new affordable homes were delivered in 2019/20. Homes for affordable rent (at up to 80% of the market rate) were the most common type of new affordable housing being built or acquired in 2019/20, making up 47% of the total. 121 Figure 7 shows the additional affordable homes provided by tenure between 1991/92 and 2019/20. 122 There has been a steady decline in social rent as a proportion of new supply, from over 75% in 1991/92 to 11% in 2019/20. In 50 local authorities, no homes for social rent were built over the five-year period from 2015/16 to 2019/20. 123 Figure 7: Additional affordable homes provided by tenure Source: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, ‘Live Tables on Affordable Housing’: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables -on-affordable-housing-supply [accessed 19 November 2021] Right to Buy
From: Built Environment Committee, 1st Report - Meeting housing demand, 10 January 2022
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 28 March 2022 (deadline 10 March 2022).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The Government welcomes the Committee's report and says it is "taking action on a number of the issues identified", agreeing with some recommendations while disagreeing with others, including on home ownership schemes and the Apprenticeship Levy.
- It "disagrees with the report's assessment that homeownership schemes do not provide good value for money", citing independent evaluations and its own evaluation of Help to Buy.
- On older people's housing, it is launching a new taskforce "this year", chaired by the Minister for Housing, to look at better choice, quality and security of housing.
- It does "not intend to set out a proportion" of Affordable Homes Programme funding for social housing, though "around half" of the affordable homes are to be for social and affordable rent.
- On the Apprenticeship Levy it says it has "no plans to review" it. On planning fees it is "exploring options" to increase them, and on local plans it will make an announcement "in due course".