Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which sites he has identified to become locally-led garden cities.

Alok Sharma, Minister of State for Housing and Planning: We are currently supporting the development of twenty-four locally-led garden cities, towns and villages with the potential for 220,000 new homes across England.

There are 10 locally-led garden cities, towns and communities at Ebbsfleet, Bicester, Didcot, Basingstoke, Otterpool Park in Kent, Aylesbury, Taunton, Harlow-Gilston, North Essex and North Northamptonshire.

We also announced our support for 14 Garden Villages in January 2017:

• Long Marston in Stratford-on-Avon

• Oxfordshire Cotswold in West Oxfordshire;

• Tresham in East Northants;

• Culm in Mid Devon;

• Welborne near Fareham in Hampshire

• West Carclaze in Cornwall;

• Dunton Hills near Brentwood, Essex;

• Spitalgate Heath in South Kesteven District, Lincolnshire

• Halsnead in Knowsley, Merseyside;

We intend to publish in the Spring, a prospectus inviting expressions of interest in ambitious, locally supported, proposals for high quality new garden communities at scale.

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