Clive Betts
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(13 years, 1 month ago)
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The Prime Minister
My hon. Friend makes an important point. It is true that we have seen our food security decline and our food production severely challenged over the past 10 years. It is important to remember that farmers are businesses. They need things done like other businesses do on deregulation, predictable income and all those things. This Government are committed to making that happen, which will benefit particularly people in my hon. Friend’s constituency.
Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East) (Lab)
On 13 September 2010 at the Select Committee on Communities and Local Government, when asked whether success for this Government will mean building more homes per year than were being built prior to the recession, the Minister for Housing and Local Government replied:
“Yes. Building more homes is the gold standard upon which we shall be judged.”
In which year or years of this Parliament does the Prime Minister expect that gold standard to be achieved?