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<p>Increasing the supply of land for new homes is central to this Government’s vision
of a country that works for everyone. The Government has an ambition to release surplus
public land with capacity for at least 160,000 homes during this Parliament. This
target was set at the Autumn Statement in 2015 and reiterated in the recent Housing
White Paper.</p><p> </p><p>Progress towards meeting this ambition is set out in Table
3 of the Public Land for Housing Programme Annual Report published in February 2017,
which shows that between 8 May 2015 and 30 September 2016 all departments released
land for a total of 13,817 homes. It is the responsibility of the Treasury, alongside
the Cabinet Office, to provide oversight, support and challenge to the Public Land
for Housing Programme.</p><p> </p>
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