To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many
social rent homes were built (a) in the last 12 months and (b) in 2021.
<p>The number of new social rent homes delivered in England, broken down by new build
and acquisitions, can be found in Live Table 1009 from <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Flive-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply&data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cbb2cace4eb5749d2e18408daf8b2c7d2%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638095743978942811%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vJwVUjeLbHJUKq4z%2Bx7kdHzZgKRjbdQDJuKvvc6bCv4%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">this link</a>. The number of new affordable housing delivered in England,
including acquisitions, by local authorities can be found through the affordable housing
supply open data, available through the same link.</p><p>Data are collected and published
by financial year, with the latest available data covering 2021-22.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with
reference to the oral contribution of the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington of
13 June 2019, Official Report, column 860, whether his Department plans to adopt the
target to build 155,000 social rented homes a year with at least 100,000 being council
homes.
<p>We are committed to increasing the supply of social housing and have invested over
£9 billion into our Affordable Homes Programme to deliver 250,000 affordable homes
by 2022, including at least 12,500 for social rent.</p><p>We do not publish yearly
targets but deliver flexibly throughout the years of the programme to achieve our
overall target and hold Homes England and the GLA to account for delivery.</p><p>We
have increased the size of the Affordable Homes Programme, re-introduced social rent,
removed the HRA borrowing cap for local authorities, and have set out a long-term
rent deal for councils and housing associations in England from 2020. Housing associations
and local authorities now need to accelerate delivery and build more affordable homes.</p>