Government ‘hasn’t much to show’ for £8.4bn investment in unlocking land for homes, says NAO

By Matilda Battersby 2026-02-11T00:01:00

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Watchdog says 33,000 homes have been built on unlocked land, just 5% of 713,000 target

The government “hasn’t much to show” for the £8.4bn of investment it has made into unlocking land for housing over the past decade, a report by the UK’s independent spending watchdog suggests.

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