While the government is on track to deliver one million new homes throughout the current Parliament, it is not forecast to deliver 300,000 net new homes per year by the mid-2020s, MPs have been told.

The findings are part of a new report published by the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee. 

In December 2022, Rishi Sunak's government ensured that the new legislation aimed at boosting housing and infrastructure would make clear that the promise to build 300,000 homes every year by the mid-2020s was only a “starting point” and would be “advisory”.

However, the Committee said its inquiry into the policy change had seen it told that the six-figure target would be “impossible to achieve”.

The 44-page report states that the government has not provided sufficient evidence to demonstrate how the policy of scrapping mandatory local housing targets will directly lead to more housebuilding.

“The government’s reform proposals include making local...