[Withdrawn] Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government single departmental plan - December 2017
Updated 27 June 2019
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Our single departmental plan sets out our objectives and how we will achieve them.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Permanent Secretary
MHCLG aims to help create great places to live and work right across the country and to back communities to come together and thrive. We strive to:
- Ensure people throughout the country have access to affordable and high quality housing
- Provide opportunities for all parts of the country to thrive economically
- Build integrated communities
- Support effective local government
Our objectives
We will:
- Fix the broken housing market
- Grow local economies
- Build integrated communities
- Support effective local government
- Ensure an effective response to the Grenfell Tower fire
- Support local government, local economies and the housing sector to get ready for EU Exit, so that the department can continue to deliver its policies
1. Fix the broken housing market
We increase the supply of homes and implement policies that will help people to access the housing market, whether they are renting or trying to buy.
Lead ministers:
The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Dominic Raab MP, Minister of State for Housing
Heather Wheeler MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Lead officials:
Helen MacNamara, Director General, Housing and Planning
Simon Ridley, Director General, Decentralisation and Growth
Tamara Finkelstein, Director General, Building Safety Programme
1.1 Supply a million homes by the end of 2020 and half a million more by the end of 2022 and put us on track to deliver 300,000 net additional homes a year on average by the mid-2020s
| How we will achieve this |
|---|
| Make available £15.3 billion of new financial support for housing over the next five years, bringing total support to at least £44 billion over this period. |
| Reform planning to ensure that the right homes are built in the right places, supported by reforms to the system of developer contributions to ensure new house building includes the needed affordable housing and infrastructure. |
| Encourage the best practice in delivering high quality design to underpin the creation of great places to live. |
| Make sure sites are built out faster through stronger intervention by local authorities, Homes England and acting on the conclusions of the independent review chaired by the Rt Hon Sir Oliver Letwin. |
| Open up the market, getting SMEs, housing associations and local authorities to build more homes. |
| Support development, including the delivery of five new garden towns which provide the opportunity for transformational long-term housing growth. |
| Make housing and planning data openly available so new digital tools can be developed to improve housing supply and the planning process. |
1.2 Improve people’s access to and experience of the housing market
| How we will achieve this |
|---|
| Bring forward a green paper on the future of social housing. |
| Increase home ownership through schemes including Help to Buy. |
| Reform the home-buying process so that it is more efficient and less costly. |
| Tackle unfair practices in the leasehold market. |
| Reform the private rented sector, supporting longer more secure tenancies; giving renters greater clarity and control over fees they pay; and ensuring all landlords are members of a redress scheme. |
| Improve redress in the housing market, including considering the case for a single housing ombudsman. |
| Implement the Homelessness Reduction Act and halve rough sleeping by 2022. |
Our performance
Net additional dwellings per annum
| Year | Net additional dwellings |
| 2017 | 217,350 |
| 2016 | 189,650 |
| 2015 | 170,690 |
Source: Net supply of housing data / Release schedule: annual
Gross supply of affordable housing completions
| Year | Gross supply of affordable housing completions |
| 2016 -2017 | 41,530 |
| 2015-2016 | 32,630 |
| 2014-2015 | 66,700 |
Source: Affordable housing supply data / Release schedule: annual
Rough sleeping count for England
| Year | Number of rough sleepers |
| 2016 | 4,134 |
| 2015 | 3,569 |
Source: Rough sleeping in England data / Release schedule: annual
2. Grow local economies
MHCLG will support local economies across the country to boost productivity and deliver inclusive growth for all our communities. We will make sure that local areas are ready to take advantage of opportunities presented by our exit from the EU.
Lead ministers:
The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Jake Berry MP, Minister for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth
Lead Officials:
Simon Ridley, Director General, Decentralisation and Growth
2.1 Support local leaders
| How we will achieve this |
|---|
| Implement and deepen devolution in existing deal areas. |
| Agree further mayoral devolution deals in major cities. |
| Develop a framework to provide clarity on our approach to devolution across England. |
| Continue to progress City and Growth deals in the devolved administrations. |
| Strengthen Local Enterprise Partnerships and Mayoral Combined Authorities |
2.2 Agree local Industrial Strategies
| How we will achieve this |
|---|
| Agree local industrial strategies that align with our national industrial strategy, which will focus on local challenges including raising skills levels; the identification of leading sectors; support for new high value businesses; and backing world-class science and innovation assets. |
| Support place-based initiatives such as the Northern Powerhouse, Midlands Engine, Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge Corridor and the Thames Estuary. |
2.3 Deliver local investment
| How we will achieve this |
|---|
| Support the creation of a new UK-Shared Prosperity Fund. |
| Deliver local projects from the 2014-20 European Regional Development Fund. |
| Unlock growth and development through the £12 billion Local Growth Fund supporting local people to invest in infrastructure, housing and skills. |
Our performance
Number of Combined Authority Mayors elected 6 2016-2017
Source: GOV.UK
Number of Devolved Administration City Deals
| Year | Number of Devolved Administration City Deals |
| 2016 -2017 | 6 |
| 2015 -2016 | 4 |
| 2014 - 2015 | 1 |
Source: GOV.UK / Release schedule: annual
3. Build integrated communities
The Department will work to bring people and communities together. We will implement policies seeking to support integration and social cohesion, and to tackle the inequalities revealed by the Prime Minister’s Race Disparity Audit.
Lead ministers:
The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Lord Bourne, Minister for Faith
Lead officials:
Jo Farrar, Director General, Local Government and Public Services
3.1 Integrated communities
| How we will achieve this |
|---|
| Develop a new integrated communities strategy. |
| Allocate the Controlling Migration Fund to ease pressures on local services. |
| Establish a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. |
4. Support effective local government
MHCLG will support local government to deliver public services to local people. We will help local authorities become more efficient and will promote the use of best practice across the sector. We will ensure that local authorities have sufficient resources to provide necessary services to their communities.
Lead ministers:
The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Rishi Sunak MP, Minister for Local Government
Lead officials:
Jo Farrar, Director General, Local Government and Public Services
4.1 Support better public services and improved efficiency
| How we will achieve this |
|---|
| Support local delivery of the existing national Troubled Families Programme benefiting families, services and the taxpayer. |
| Consider unitarisation and mergers between councils where requested. |
4.2 Local Government Sustainability
| How we will achieve this |
|---|
| Use the Fair Funding Review to set new baselines on need and resources. |
| Reform the Business Rates Retention System to allow local government to continue to give local government greater control over the money they raise. |
| Build community resilience, supporting them to be ready for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. |
Our performance
Families were engaged in the Troubled Families Programme 272,100 by September 2017
Source: GOV.UK
5. Ensure an effective response to the Grenfell Tower fire
MHCLG’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire, including the Building Safety Programme, will ensure that those affected get the support they need and that residents of high rise buildings are safe and feel safe from fire, now and in the future.
Lead ministers:
The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Dominic Raab MP, Minister of State for Housing
Nick Hurd MP Minister for Grenfell Victims
Lead officials :
Tamara Finkelstein, Director General, Building Safety Programme
Jo Farrar, Local Government and Public Services
Helen MacNamara, Director General, Housing and Planning
5.1 Support for those affected by the Grenfell Tower Fire
| How we will achieve this |
|---|
| Provide support to those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire, including working with RBKC to meet commitments to permanently rehouse households.. |
| Full cooperation with the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry. |
| Through the independent Taskforce, provide oversight and advice to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council on the recovery effort. |
5.2 Ensure residents of high rise buildings are safe and feel safe from fire, now and in the future
| How we will achieve this |
|---|
| Identify buildings that are unsafe and monitor and support their remediation. |
| Review the changes needed to make buildings safe in future and respond to Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations. |
Our performance
You can find information on how we are doing on the Building Safety Programme page.
6. Exit from the European Union
The Department is working to support the UK’s smooth exit from the European Union
Lead ministers:
The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Jake Berry MP, Minister for Local Growth
Lead officials:
Simon Ridley, Director General, Decentralisation and Growth
6.1 Support a smooth exit from the EU
| How we will achieve this |
|---|
| Establish a new UK Shared Prosperity Fund to support growth across our four nations |
| Develop plans to exit European funding programmes in line with the UK’s European Union exit objectives and negotiation plan |
| Implement statutory instruments (as appropriate) to support our construction, planning and building regimes following EU-Exit |
| Analyse impacts on housing and local government sectors |
| Work closely with local government and other stakeholders throughout the negotiations, to ensure the interests of every region are taken into account |
Our finances
Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) - £16.2 billion
Resource DEL (including depreciation) - £9.6 billion
Capital DEL – £6.5 billion
Annually Managed Expenditure – £15.6 billion
Control totals included in this document are in line with the latest voted by Parliament in the Main Supply Estimates 2017/18.
Source: Main Estimates 2017/18.