National Housing Bank
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the written statement of 18 June 2025 on National Housing Bank and new capital grant funding, HCWS712, over what period the £5 billion of new capital grant funding applies; and how much equivalent funding was provided in the last Parliament.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
The government will launch the National Housing Delivery Fund in 2026/27. Its c.£5bn of capital grant funding will be available across the four financial years from 2026/27 to 2029/30.
In the last Spending Review period (2022/23 to 2024/25), the previous government delivered grant funding for infrastructure and land across the Home Building Fund , Brownfield Housing Fund, Brownfield Infrastructure and Land Fund, Housing Infrastructure Fund, Land Assembly Programme, Single Land Programme, City Deals, Brownfield Land Release Fund, Bristol Temple Quarter and Ancoats, Estate Regeneration and Ebbsfleet. In total these programmes spent £2.935bn across that Spending Review period.
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