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Select committee: Built Environment Committee

Government response to the Committee's report "Meeting housing demand"

Published 28 March 2022

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The government's response

This document responds to 1st Report - Meeting housing demand.

This is the government's response, published 28 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".

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