To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what issues the forthcoming Housing Green Paper will address; and what the timetable is for its publication. (230308)

The Government announced in ‘Preparing Britain for the future: the Government's draft legislative programme 2008-09' (available from The Stationery Office)

http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm73/7372/7372.pdf

and its intention to publish a Housing Reform Green Paper towards the end of 2008. It said that the Green Paper would set out

“proposals to provide housing services and options which help and encourage people towards greater economic independence and social mobility—matching responsibility with opportunity so that they can realise their potential and best meet their own housing aspirations in the future—and to deliver greater fairness and make best use of resources”.

I am currently considering the content and timing of the Green Paper.