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Asked how many of the 250,000 new homes a year would be social housing, the PMS said that it depended on policy decisions from the DCLG as well as the outcome of the spending review. DCLG might comment further when their Green Paper was published next week.

Asked for a guarantee that of the 3 million new homes, none would be built on existing Greenbelt land, the PMS replied that the Greenbelt protections would be maintained. These were specific decisions about specific houses which were matters for local authorities at the local level. The key thing was that Greenbelt protections remained unchanged. The PMS said that the volume of Greenbelt land had increased since 1997, and what the Prime Minister was talking about today, and what the new housing agency would do would be a push in releasing public sector land which was Brownfield land.

Put that the argument was that that won’t be enough, the PMS said that we were talking about some large numbers in relation to public sector land.

Asked how much of the target would be met by the Olympics, the PMS replied that the journalist should speak to the Department.

Asked for a position on the Planning Gain Supplement, the PMS said that this was something that had been under consideration and consultation for some time. The Prime Minister said that we would certainly look at bring forward legislation on a provisional basis, but we would not do that if developers could come up with alternative proposals in relation to tariffs or other means by which the value of planning gain could be extracted.

Put that some planning legislation had gone through the Commons, the PMS explained that that was enabling legislation that would enable HMRC to spend money to develop the technicalities of the Planning Gain Supplement. We were not at the point yet of legislating for the Bill itself, but the fact that we were saying that we might need to bring in further legislation suggested that further legislation was required to get the Planning Gain Supplement up and running. However, at the moment, that was on a provisional basis.

Asked about the role of citizens juries, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister had asked the regional Ministers and the relevant Secretaries of State to take forward engagement and discussion on the draft programme. Regional Ministers would be holding consultations and discussions on these proposals, but views could also be given on the Cabinet Office and the Leader of the Commons’ website. There would be plenty of opportunity for the regional Ministers and Secretaries of State to set out in more detail the mechanism by which this would happen.

Put that this was an important part of this new innovation of having this pre-legislative scrutiny before The Queen’s Speech, the PMS said that the nature of that consultation would become apparent in the period ahead.

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