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Written question asked by Jon Trickett (Labour) on Monday, 7 February 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 9 February 2022. It was answered by Neil O'Brien (Conservative) on Monday, 14 February 2022 on behalf of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Housing: Yorkshire and the Humber

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the missions announced in the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, published on 2 February 2022, if he will publish the projected (a) increase in the number of first-time buyers and (b) decrease in non-decent rented homes for (a) Hemsworth constituency, (b) Wakefield local authority and (c) Yorkshire and the Humber region in each year to 2030.

Answer

The Levelling Up White Paper set out 12 ambitious new missions that are targeted, measurable and time-bound declarations of the progress needed to achieve levelling up.

The housing mission aims to provide a path to home ownership for first-time buyers as well as reducing the number of non-decent rented homes by 50%. The UK Government is committed to developing a metric for first-time buyer numbers per year that can be published at the sub-national level within the next year, to track progress against this mission. Ahead of these data being made public, supporting metrics drawn from the English Housing Survey will be used to track home ownership trends. The headline metric for housing quality is the proportion of renters living in housing that does not meet the Decent Homes Standard (DHS). Currently, housing quality can only be measured at the regional level in England. The metric will look at outcomes in all regions in England, as all areas have pockets of poor outcomes.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
119419
Session
2021-22
Related items
Levelling Up the United Kingdom
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Command papers
House of Lords
House of Commons
Subjects
Regional planning and development Rented housing First time buyers Yorkshire and the Humber
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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