To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many socially rented houses the Government is proposing to build in each year to 2020. (163926)

[holding answer 13 November 2007]: We announced in the Housing Green Paper an increase of new affordable housing to at least 70,000 per annum by 2010-11. Of these, 45,000 homes per annum will be for social rent, with a goal to go further in subsequent years to 50,000 new homes for social rent per annum in the next spending review period.