PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing Infrastructure Fund (10 November 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the redesign of the Housing Infrastructure Fund.

Asked by:
Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative)

We have developed a range of funding initiatives to help tackle the housing crisis and deliver new housing. Those schemes include the Housing Infrastructure Fund, which has allocated around £4 billion to support the delivery of new and improved infrastructure which will unlock up to 320,000 homes.

However, to achieve our ambitions we need to go further. That is why we announced in the Queen’s speech and as part of Budget 2020, that we will launch a new £10 billion Single Housing Infrastructure Fund (SHIF) to provide the roads, schools and GP surgeries needed to support new homes by funding the provision of strategic infrastructure and assembling land for development.

As we made clear at Budget, we will make further statements at the Spending Review.

Answered by:
Christopher Pincher (Independent)
18 November 2020