Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Foster of Bath and Peter Luff

Monday 4th February 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Foster]

The Government have already put in place a number of measures to help people such as those the right hon. Gentleman describes. HomeSwap Direct is now available, and there is additional funding in local authority budgets to assist those who wish to move into the privately rented sector, with still more money for areas where rents are increasing.

[Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire) (Con)]

Will the Minister explain to me and the communities of south Worcestershire why the Planning Inspectorate measures the existence of a five-year supply of land for housing not on the basis of planning permissions granted, but on completions achieved?