A group of influential MPs will quiz officials from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) later this month over the government’s ambitions to build 300,000 homes a year in England from the mid-2020s.

The 16-strong Public Accounts Committee, chaired by Labour MP Meg Hillier, will grill officials in Westminster on how the MHCLG expects to meet the housebuilding target.

The inquiry, entitled ’Planning and the broken housing market’, will also pose questions around local authorities’ spending on planning and on their processes for dealing with planning applications, as well as investigating long-term funding for infrastructure to support the building of new homes.