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Debate between Christina Rees and Lord Barwell
Monday 16th January 2017

(7 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Barwell Portrait Gavin Barwell
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I absolutely give my hon. Friend that assurance. I congratulate her on championing brownfield land. The new brownfield registers that we are introducing will help to ensure that development is, rightly, focused on brownfield first.

Christina Rees Portrait Christina Rees (Neath) (Lab/Co-op)
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T3. Does the Minister agree that available housing provision is the key to reducing homelessness and that his Government should look to the Welsh Labour Government’s legislative pledges of £5.6 million in 2015 and £3 million in following years to fund affordable homes to rent as well as to buy?

Lord Barwell Portrait Gavin Barwell
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The hon. Lady will have heard, in the autumn statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer adding £1.4 billion to the affordable housing budget. We are doubling the housing capital budget over this Parliament. That is not rhetoric, but proof of our commitment to delivering the housing that is needed.