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HANSARDNew HomesI am sure the noble Lord is aware of my great passion for development corporations and the way that they work. It is true that we are encouraging Homes England to break down the…11 Dec 2024HANSARDNew HomesI am working daily on that task at the moment. We are looking at the future homes standard with the future homes hub, which involves the whole construction industry, to make sure…11 Dec 2024HANSARDNew HomesThe noble Baroness is quite right about the stuck sites but, in spite of the very difficult Budget round this year, the Government have put £500 million more into affordable…11 Dec 2024HANSARDNew HomesI thank my noble friend. He is right, to the extent that we recognise the constraints. We spent a lot of time early in government identifying what they were, working with the…11 Dec 2024HANSARDNew HomesTo deliver 1.5 million homes over this Parliament the housebuilding sector will need skilled and competent workers, efficient planning and a reliable materials supply chain, as…11 Dec 2024HANSARDNew HomesI am grateful to the noble Lord for giving me the opportunity to say that I went to visit British Offsite with Weston Homes in Braintree earlier this week. What a fantastic…11 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing (Right to Buy) (Limits on Discount) (England) Order 2024My Lords, I thank the noble Earl for bringing this debate. We are in the middle of the most acute housing crisis in living memory. Too many are left without access to a safe and…10 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing Supply and HomelessnessMy Lords, I am very pleased to respond for the Government on such an important issue. I grew up in social housing and I was very proud of my new-town pioneer parents who allowed…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsMy Lords, I thank my noble friend for her Question and her advocacy of devolution. As the Deputy Prime Minister set out in her letter to metro mayors, “housing need in England…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsI completely agree with my noble friend. It will be necessary to introduce effective new mechanisms for that strategic planning and to put the say in strategic planning back into…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsI thank the noble Baroness for her question. I am passionate about ensuring that we do not have a new generation of homes that have to be retrofitted. I was with the Future Homes…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsMy Lords, I am not going to apologise for the housing ambitions of this Government. We were left with a housing crisis, which we have set about tackling. The previous Government…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsMy Lords, we have done an extensive consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework. We reintroduced government housing targets, because we want to deliver 1.5 million…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsWe will take measures to deal with land-banking and the situation with long-term empty homes. Sometimes, homes are built but still not occupied. We will increase funding to make…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsI thank the noble Lord but will resist the temptation to explain why we have not delivered the number of homes we wanted to this year, as I think he knows the answer. On skills,…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsThe noble Baroness is quite correct: we want to do that. Despite the very difficult Budget round this time, the Secretary of State for my department was able to achieve further…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsI thank the noble Lord for inviting me to Cambridge, which I visited last week. It was a good visit and I am grateful to him. I can commit to publish the NPPF before the House…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsThat subject is very close to my heart. We have already set up a leaders’ council, which meets again next week. That is our way of communicating, on housing, development and many…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsThe full details will be published in the English devolution White Paper, but the intention is that mayors will have some strategic powers over major infrastructure in their areas…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsAs a new town girl, I absolutely celebrate the drive for new new towns. I know that Sir Michael Lyons, who is in charge of the task force for new towns, is working hand in glove…05 Dec 2024