The Greater London Authority is failing to provide enough affordable homes under Sadiq Khan’s leadership, Michael Gove has said, pointing out that the Labour mayor missed his London Plan target by approximately 15,000 homes each year. The London Plan target is to deliver 520,000 homes over 10 years. 

Responding to a letter from Khan and the London Housing Delivery Taskforce sent in November, which set out key asks to avert a slowdown in affordable housing delivery, including the injection of £2.2bn in grant funding, Gove said that “it is not right or fair” for London to rely on more public subsidy.