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Ministry of Defence: Land

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Question for Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

UIN 26569, tabled on 27 January 2025

Question

Sarah Owen
Labour
Luton North
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it remains her policy for Homes England to acquire Ministry of Defence land through the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to meet the government's housebuilding commitments.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
Labour
Greenwich and Woolwich
Commons

Answered on

30 January 2025

Homes England works closely with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, the Ministry of Defence and other landowning Departments, providing targeted and expert support to help prepare land for sale, tackling issues that have previously delayed or prevented land release.

Homes England can acquire public sector sites where this offers the best option – and value for money – to accelerate the remediation and release of a site and its build out for housing.

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