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Debate between Andrew Gwynne and Robert Halfon
Wednesday 15th June 2016
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(8 years, 5 months ago)
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Robert Halfon
My hon. Friend, as so often, hits the nail on the head. A huge Government programme has ensured that available public sector land is used to build more houses for our country.
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish) (Lab)
A 2010 report suggested that to end the London magnet we had to move more top civil servant jobs out of the capital and into the regions. How are the Government getting on with that aim?
Robert Halfon
The Government are getting on very well with it: the number of civil servant buildings in central London has gone down hugely. We have created hundreds of thousands of jobs all over the country— 95,000 new jobs in the last year in the north of England alone—and what matters is what kinds of jobs we are creating and how many people are being employed.