Oral Answers to Questions

Lord Cryer Excerpts

Tuesday 17th January 2017 Commons Chamber

[Simon Kirby]

I agree. The PMI surveys show significant resilience in the UK economy since the referendum. The Prime Minister recently made it clear that we will make a success of leaving the EU.

[John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)]

Given the Chief Secretary’s earlier comments about attempts to stimulate house building, can he guarantee that at the end of this Parliament the supply of rented homes will be larger than it was at the beginning?

[Mr Gauke]

We are likely to build more affordable homes in this Parliament than have been built since the 1970s.