Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alison McGovern and Ian Roome

Monday 24th November 2025 Commons Chamber

[Alison McGovern]

I will happily meet my hon. Friend—great railway towns like Crewe ought to be invested in. He will have heard from previous answers today that the new measure of deprivation uses fine-grain data, so we can identify those pockets of deprivation, like in Crewe and Nantwich. I look forward to talking with him at length on this subject.

[Ian Roome (North Devon) (LD)]

In rural areas like my constituency, private renting is very expensive and is unaffordable to many. What is the Minister doing to ensure that more housing is available at social rent rather than market rent, which people can simply not afford?