To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps the Government are taking to provide (a) low cost housing for sale and (b) affordable rented housing over the next three years. (130153)

[holding answer 29 March 2007]: We are on course to meet the target of delivering 30,000 social rented homes by 2008, a 50 per cent. increase on 2004-05.

We are expanding our programme of low cost home ownership, building on innovative private financing to help more people into partial ownership on a shared equity basis. We expect 120,000 households to access home ownership through publicly funded shared equity schemes in the five years to 2010.

Investment for 2008-09 to 2010-11 and plans for increasing social housing supply will be subject to the outcome of Comprehensive Spending Review 2007.