The Affordable Homes Programme since 2015

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 19 Aug 2022 Closed: 24 Feb 2023 Parliament page
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is responsible for the Affordable Homes Programme, intended to supply new affordable homes for people to own or rent. The programme is managed by Homes England outside of London and the Greater London Authority within London. Building on previous inquiries into … Read more
17 Recommendations
6 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
1 Letter
1 Event
Activity timeline 5 events
24 Feb
2023
Report published
12 Dec
2022
Correspondence
7 Dec
2022
Report published
22 Sep
2022
Oral evidence
22 Sep
2022
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
22 Sep 2022
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The Affordable Homes Programme since 2015
Emran Mian · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Jeremy Pocklington · Ministry of Defence Peter Denton · Homes England
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Twenty-Ninth Report - The Affordable Homes Programme since 2015 HC 684 7 Dec 2022 23 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
3 results
Clear
8 Recommendation Accepted in Part
Twenty-Ninth Report - The Affordab…
The Department specifies the overall number of homes (not just affordable homes) that local authorities...
The Department specifies the overall number of homes (not just affordable homes) that local authorities should build each year, through a calculation known as the ‘standard method’. Local authorities must follow this unless they have exceptional circumstances, and face penalties … Read more
Government Response
The government will consider additional ways to work with Local Authorities to match delivery with local need, while highlighting existing mechanisms in place.
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9 Recommendation Accepted in Part
Twenty-Ninth Report - The Affordab…
We challenged the Department about whether housing providers build homes where they are needed most.
We challenged the Department about whether housing providers build homes where they are needed most. The Department does not allocate funding from the Programme based on its calculation of local housing need.20 Under strategic bidding, housing providers only state the … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees to consider additional ways to work with Local Authorities to match housing delivery with local need, including exploring giving greater control over the 2021 programme to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the West Midlands Combined Authority, and seeking to improve benefit cost ratio assessments for successor programmes.
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19 Recommendation Accepted in Part
Twenty-Ninth Report - The Affordab…
The Department told us that it could have set higher standards from the outset for...
The Department told us that it could have set higher standards from the outset for net- zero, but that doing so would likely reduce the number of homes delivered. We challenged the Department on this assertion, because it had not … Read more
Government Response
The government will explore the cost and deliverability of additional net zero requirements for a successor programme, while noting existing steps taken in the 2021 programme.
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Government Response AI assessment · 23 of 17 classified
Accepted 10
Accepted in Part 3
Acknowledged 2
Deferred 2
Not Addressed 4
Rejected 2
Total 17 recs + 6 conclusions
Correspondence 1 letter
12 Dec 2022 Correspondence from Peter Denton, Chief Executive Officer, Homes England, re Public Accounts Committee: Starter Homes inquiry – Affordable Housing statistics, dated 29 June 2022
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