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<p>We are taking significant steps to address the challenges to increasing housing
supply around the country, including in Suffolk. We recognise the scale of challenges
facing the housebuilding sector in the current macro-economic climate. Against this
challenging backdrop, we have invested billions in housing since the start of this
Parliament. This investment will support bringing forward land for development, enabling
the market to deliver the homes and infrastructure that communities need, and support
increasing local authority planning capacity.</p><p>We have also taken significant
measures through the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act, and National Planning Policy
Framework, to reform the planning system. These measures aim to reduce planning delays,
bureaucracy, slow build-out rates, and wider barriers to growth and development.</p><p>We
want decisions about homes to be driven locally and we want to get more local plans
in place to deliver the homes we need. This is why we have revised the National Planning
Policy Framework (published 19 December 2023) to be clearer about the importance of
planning for homes and other development that our communities need.</p><p>The Department
publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’,
which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply, with estimates
of new homes delivered in each local authority, including East Suffolk, in each financial
year since 2001-02, shown in Live Table 122 at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-net-supply-of-housing"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-net-supply-of-housing</a>.</p><p>Figures
at parliamentary constituency level are not centrally collected.</p>
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