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Oral Answers to Questions

Anne Main Excerpts
Monday 6th June 2016

(8 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Greg Clark Portrait Greg Clark
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Yes, I have regular conversations with the Secretary of State. As with other areas of local government responsibility, sometimes its responsibilities cross the lines of departmental boundaries. We make sure, very particularly, that we join that up and reflect in the responsibilities and the funding of local government the full range of its commitments and needs.

Anne Main Portrait Mrs Anne Main (St Albans) (Con)
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Office for National Statistics figures state that 3.3 million extra people will come to our country in the next 15 years. How on earth are we to make sure that there is enough land and that output will be increased enough to support the number of buildings required for that number of immigrants?