Debates between John Healey and James Cartlidge during the 2015-2017 Parliament

Housing and Planning Bill

Debate between John Healey and James Cartlidge
Monday 2nd November 2015

(8 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Healey Portrait John Healey
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I regret that—just as in the last five years of this Government—we did not do enough to ensure that when council homes were sold, there was enough funding to ensure that they could be replaced fully, one for one, like for like, and in the area in which they were lost. That big flaw in this Bill will become more and more exposed in every area, including in the constituencies of Conservative Members, in each of the next five years.

James Cartlidge Portrait James Cartlidge (South Suffolk) (Con)
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While the right hon. Gentleman is on the subject of regrets, let me mention Babergh, the main district in my constituency, where between 1997 and 2007 house prices increased by 200% on a sea of badly regulated mortgages, which led to an inevitable crash and a very deep recession? Does he regret the credit crunch, the excessive lending and the poor regulation that caused the affordability crisis we have today?